Smoking rate among high schoolers at lowest level in decade

Friday, June 18, 2004

ATLANTA -- Smoking among U.S. high school students has fallen to about one in five -- the lowest level in at least a generation -- in a drop-off the government attributes to anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette taxes.

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