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Article: Decline in teen smoking in U.S. levels off
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 10, 2006
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ATLANTA (AP) - 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 Husten, acting director of the Office on Smoking and
Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The trend was outlined in the CDC's National Youth Risk Behavior
Survey, which is conducted every other ...