“Smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative to smoking and is even more habit forming because it contains a higher concentration of nicotine than cigarettes,” Zeleski said.

“It is our responsibility, as elected officials, parents and neighbors, to protect our youth from initiating the dangerous addictive habit of tobacco use,” said City Council President Michael Solomon, who joined the mayor and other officials at the signing.

No Limits, Nebraska’s youth-led tobacco prevention movement, invites Nebraska teens in grades 7-12 to stand up and speak out against Big Tobacco at the Kick Butts Day Rally on March 21 in Lincoln.