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Middle schoolers' nicotine use, promoting women-run businesses with Holiday Haul

By Daniel Caruth,

Randy Dixon, Kyle Kellams, Matthew Moore

Published November 27, 2023 at 1:31 PM CST

On today's show, a new CDC report shows tobacco use for middle school students is on the rise. Plus, a boyhood friendship that began in Hot Springs and continued into the White House. Also, celebrating a concentration of woman-run and woman-owned businesses in downtown Fayetteville.

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Daniel Caruth

Daniel Caruth is KUAF's Morning Edition host and reporter for Ozarks at Large<i>.</i>

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Randy Dixon

Randy Dixon is the Director of News Archives and Media for the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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Matthew Moore

Matthew Moore is senior producer for Ozarks at Large.

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