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Article: TEEN SMOKING ON THE DECLINE
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- United Press International
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- May 16, 2002
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Teen smoking on the decline
ATLANTA, May 16, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Teen
smoking rates have been declining since 1997, constituting a reverse
from the increase in teen smoking seen in the early 1990s, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention revealed in a new report Thursday.
This could "contribute to potentially millions of deaths averted,"
Terry Pechacek, associate director for science with CDC's office
of smoking and health, told United Press International.
CDC was very concerned about the increasing rates seen in the first
half of the 1990s because 6.4 million American youths would die prematurely
due to a tobacco related ...