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Article: The alarming trend of teen girl smoking.
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Smoking will eventually kill more teens than all other combined methods of death. Large-scale studies have firmly established that one in two life-long smokers dies from smoking, half while in middle age. With each cigarette smoked, seven minutes of life is lost. Smoking diseases such as lung cancer with low cure rates tend to be very painful ways to die. So, why are so many teenage girls--as compared to teenage boys--taking up a deadly habit more addictive than heroin? The answers can be found by examining the marketing practices of the tobacco industry, today's American culture, and most importantly, the role of parents.
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