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Article: Once-declining teen smoking rates level off
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- June 10, 2006
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MIKE STOBBE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-10-2006
Once-declining teen smoking rates level off -- Survey shows one in four light up
By MIKE STOBBE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 06-10-2006, Saturday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
ATLANTA — 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 ...