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Article: Statement by Dr. Cheryl Healton, President and CEO, American Legacy Foundation(R) on the Centers for Disease Control's Report on Cigarette Smoking Among High School Students.
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- June 17, 2004
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WASHINGTON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today included an article, Cigarette Use Among High School Students, in their weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report. The American Legacy Foundation is encouraged by the report's findings that during 2003, smoking levels are down considerably from previous years.
Cigarette use among American teenagers has been falling since the late- 1990s. Comprehensive tobacco control that is changing attitudes about smoking, coupled with price increases on cigarettes, innovative campaigns at the state level, and the American Legacy Foundation's own truth(R) campaign have all contributed ...