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Article: THE BATTLE TO CUT TEEN SMOKING HOUSE PANEL TOLD THERE'S `NO SINGLE MAGIC BULLET'.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 10, 1997
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Increasing the cost of cigarettes by $1.50 a pack would reduce teen smoking only if combined with other anti-smoking measures, two of three specialists told a House subcommittee yesterday.
``There is no single magic bullet,'' DePaul University psychology professor Leonard Jason told the House Commerce subcommittee on health and environment. ``The best approach is a combination of tools, including restricting access and advertising, school-based programs and price increases.''
Economic studies show that when the price goes up 10 percent overall smoking among adults goes down by about 4 percent and teen smoking by 7 percent, said Michael Eriksen, ...