Transcript: GEPHARDT STATEMENT ON LEGISLATION TO REDUCE TEEN SMOKING

Article: Fed: Retail compliance can reduce teen ...
AAP General News (Australia);  May 4, 2000 ;     275 words ... ... Australia) 05-04-2000 Fed: Retail compliance can reduce teen smoking rates New research shows that cutting the number of retailers willing to sell cigarettes to minors can reduce teen smoking. A study in the latest edition of the Health Promotion ...

Article: Senate accepts anti-drug plan in tobacco debate GOP looks to pass ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Democratic leaders to break a logjam on a bill to reduce teen smoking. "Reports of the death of this legislation are ... proposals as part of the cost of clearing a major anti-teen smoking measure. One administration official, speaking ...

Article: GORE BACKS HIGHER COST FOR TOBACCO `IT WILL REDUCE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 23, 1998 ;     675 words ... ... tobacco plan is passed by Congress it will reduce underage teen smoking by 42 percent over the next five years, saving nearly 1 ... the price of cigarettes. Gore cited surveys showing that teen smoking drops by about 7 percent for each 10 percent increase in ...

Article: COST UNLIKELY TO REDUCE TEEN SMOKING
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  March 25, 1998 ;     527 words ...Will raising the cost of cigarettes cut teen-age smoking? Did Prohibition work? Did health warnings stop people from smoking? Did any people quit their jobs because their employers banned smoking in their work places? I'm willing to support just about any health-improvement effort, but I have my

Article: Beer, Cigarette Taxes Help Reduce Teen ...
Family Practice News;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...BALTIMORE -- State-mandated beer and cigarette taxes were linked to a significant reduction in smoking and drinking among teens in a survey of adolescents from 20 states, Dr. David M. Bishai reported at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies. The findings are based on responses from

Article: Use settlement money to reduce teen smoking
The Boston Globe;  April 21, 1999 ;     316 words ...Largely as a result of the initiative of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the rate of addiction to tobacco among our teenagers is dropping. Nevertheless, too many kids are getting hooked, which hurls them into the statistics of increased cancer rates, heart disease, vascular disease,

Article: Fining kids won't reduce teen smoking
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 17, 1998 ;     471 words ...While it is always good to see a debate about tobacco on your editorial pages, I must respond to points made on youth and smoking in two separate letters on June 30. Steve Lehmkuhl wrote that when it comes to reducing tobacco use among our kids, all we need to do is enforce existing laws. He's