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Article: Survey: Teen Smoking in U.S. Levels Off
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MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-10-2006
Dateline: ATLANTA
Two unidentified High school students smoke a cigarette after class at a shopping center in Miami, Tuesday March 18, 1997. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, FILE)
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 ...