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Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

ever tried cigarette smoking, even one or two puffs), (2) current cigarette use (i ...
For this analysis, temporal changes for three behaviors were assessed: (1) lifetime cigarette use (i ...
smoke d cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...

See New FDA Ads About Cigarette Sales

For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
The FDA rule, published in August 1996, requires retailers to check for photo identification of anyone younger than age 27 who attempts to purchase cigarettes or smoke less tobacco and prohibits the sale of these items to anyone under age 18 ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...

Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter

Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effects simultaneously and controlled for sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 surveys to obtain cross-sectional data representative of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia ...
Studies show that the best way to keep retailers from selling tobacco products to minors is through a combination of compliance activities and public education campaigns that target both retailers and consumers ...

Tobacco Documents Show Industry Intentionally Discounted Health Risks

Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
To date, more than 100,000 compliance checks have been completed by teams of state or local officials and young people at retail outlets throughout the country ...
In 1962, Rodgman wrote: `The amount of evidence accumulated to indict cigarette smoke as a health hazard is overwhelming while the evidence challenging the indictment is scant ...

Attorneys Attack Youth Smoking

Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small for meaningful analysis ...
Underage smoke rs may have a harder time buying cigarettes at gas stations and convenience stores across the country, under a deal announced Tuesday by attorneys general in 43 states and Exxon Mobil Corp ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...

Learn Why This Session Could Be The Most Important

Following are excerpts from the Pioneer Press report of the unsealing ...
When ASH learned that President Clinton would not announce his decision regarding the proposed deal until September (rather than ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

What works for adult smoke rs--and researchers are still trying to figure out that problem too--may backfire for adolescents ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...
This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that although (1) the prevalence of lifetime cigarette use was stable among high school students during the 1990s and (2) the prevalence of both current and current frequent cigarette use increased into the late 1990s, all three behaviors ...
Yussuf Saloojee, National Council Against Smoking, Katherine Everett, Cancer Association of South Africa, Dr ...

Many Former Smokers Become Hooked on Smoking Cessation Products

The agreement applies to Exxon Mobil's roughly 1,000 gas stations and convenience stores nationwide, with 27 in Massachusetts ...
In addition, the ads will run in 11 other markets including Bridgeport, Connecticut; Lafayette, Louisiana; San Antonio ...
A third of the nation's nearly 50 million smoke rs attempt to quit each year, according to the American Cancer Society, and that has made smoking-cessation products an $800 million business in the United States alone ...

US News on Secret Tobacco Papers

Yussuf Saloojee, National Council Against Smoking, Katherine Everett, Cancer Association of South Africa, Dr ...
To date, more than 100,000 compliance checks have been completed by teams of state or local officials and young people at retail outlets throughout the country ...
For this analysis, temporal changes for three behaviors were assessed: (1) lifetime cigarette use (i ...
Jim Carter, regional director of Exxon Mobil said in a written statement ...

NC Doctors Provide Cessation Treatments for Workplace Smokers

Spangler acknowledged the Triad's long history of tobacco use and sales, but said that the health risks made the program important ...
This session, however, could be the most important one of the Conference since it is designed to influence President Clinton's decision regarding the proposed US tobacco deal, and ultimately the deal itself ...
It's like having four witnesses to an armed robbery instead of just two," said John Coale, a plaintiffs' lawyer specializing in tobacco litigation ...