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Hawaii residents at the state Capitol joined thousands of people nationwide for yesterday's 12th Annual Kick Butts Day, sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, state Department of Health, Tobacco Prevention and Education Program and the REAL program-Hawaii Youth Movement Exposing the Tobacco Industry. Michelle Magdirila of Molokai, shouted anti-smoking slogans as Brent Sokei, left, and Clutz Workman, both of Kauai, and Kanoe Dodd of Maui waved signs.

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Also at the rally was Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona, speaking on anti-smoking measures.

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Bella Grace Harper, 2 1/2, who attended with her mother, Barbra Pleadwell.

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About 40 people attended a transit informational meeting last night at Kapolei Hale, above, but only three offered written comments and six gave oral testimony about costs and a rail route. The city has set a third meeting, 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Salt Lake Elementary cafeteria, to collect public comments for an environmental impact study of its proposed mass transit system.

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Mike Palcic was among those holding signs in front of City Hall yesterday to protest exclusion of the "managed lane alternative," or HOT lanes, from the mass transit discussions.