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Article: TOBACCO CONTROL; CONTINUED ANTI-SMOKING EFFORTS ARE WORTH THE INVESTMENT.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2008
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To the Editor:
How about some good news for a change? Smoking rates among New York high school students dropped from 32.9 percent in 1997 to 13.8 percent in 2007.
The fact that New York's youth smoking rates have continued to decline steadily while most states have witnessed their rates starting to level off is testimony to a strong, comprehensive, statewide tobacco control program.
In fact, a recent report released by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and other national anti-smoking advocacy groups acknowledges that New York state has a tobacco control program that works.
And yet 27,700 children under 18 in New York become new, daily smokers each year. Kids ...