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Percentage of teen smokers holds steady at 20%


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The number of teens who smoke has stopped declining, and anti-smoking activists worry that complacency is setting in, the Washington Post reports. The latest survey shows that 20% of kids between the ages of 13 and 17 light up, a figure that has generally held steady since 2003. It remains a marked improvement from the figure of 36.4% n 1997, but the leveling off has health officials worried.

"The lack of greater progress in recent years is a clear warning to elected officials to resist complacency and redouble efforts to reduce tobacco use,” one lobbyist said. Activists say state money for anti-smoking campaigns has dried up since a 1998 settlement against Big Tobacco. They also say that tobacco companies continue a subtle campaign to lure teens through promotions and by working to keep characters puffing away in TV and movies.

source: Washington Post
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  • Hopefully they quit as they get older as they will find out you cant smoke anywhere inside. + it makes you stink like bad breath, stinky feet and B.O. with every breath. its just a bad habit, i smoked cigs and quit, it just stinks. it took me talking to some one who smoke 2 times the amount i did and i couldn't believe the stink that came off him, and i didnt want that to be me in a few years.
    DELAMOTA

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