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Article: Teen smoking has declined
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2000
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Teen smoking has declined, survey finds
Analysts credit prevention programs for drop after rise during
most of 1990s
By ERIN MCCLAM
Associated Press
Friday, August 25, 2000
Atlanta -- Smoking among high schoolers dropped slightly last year
after climbing for most of the 1990s, the government said Thursday.
Government analysts attributed the drop to teen smoking prevention
programs and the higher cost of cigarettes.
"The good news is we appear to be cresting or starting to decline
from the epidemic of the 1990s," said Terry Pechacek, associate
director of the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC said 34.8% of high school students in 1999 ...