"just say no" meaning in English

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Phrase

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  1. An advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no and rejecting peer pressure. Related terms: abstinence, not even once, straight edge, teetotalling
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