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Article: TEEN SMOKING IN THE U.S. HAS LEVELED OFF.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 10, 2006
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Byline: Mike Stobbe Associated Press
ATLANTA -- The long, steady decline in teen smoking in the U.S. since the late 1990s appears to have come to a standstill, health officials said Friday.
A survey released this week showed that smoking among high school students held steady at around one in four teenagers between 2003 and 2005. Two other surveys in the past year or so found that teen smoking has apparently plateaued since 2002.
"We were making good progress, and now it looks like we're not," said Dr. Corinne Husten, acting director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The trend was ...