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Article: The facts about ... women and smoking.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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You're female, age 15. Just for a moment, picture yourself in the future. Not your future as in what you're doing this summer, but when you're about 30 years old. Would you like to see yourself in a good job? as a mom? traveling? living in a place of your own? as drug addict with a killing habit?
A safe guess at your answers: Yes. Perhaps.
Good idea. Yes. No.
Of course you don't see drug dependence in your future. But when it comes to one of the most common and dangerous forms of drug addiction, many young women take the first step every day. They smoke their first cigarette.
A young woman's first cigarette may not lead to more, but it could. ...