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Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
smoke d cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...
During 1991-2003, sample sizes ranged from 10,904 to 16,296, school response rates ranged from 70% to 81%, student response rates ranged from 83% to 90%, and overall response rates ranged from 60% to 70 ...

Kids Encourage Havre, MT to Pass Tobacco Free City Parks Resolution

Thirteen-year-old Donald Cox says he knows firsthand the dangers of secondhand cigarette smoke ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...
For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...

See New FDA Ads About Cigarette Sales

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 ...
For the first time, FDA will run statewide ads throughout the year in Colorado, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Nevada ...
For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
1 To examine changes in cigarette use among high school students in the United States during 1991-2003 ...

New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

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 ...
paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
In addition, the ads will run in 11 other markets including Bridgeport, Connecticut; Lafayette, Louisiana; San Antonio, Texas; Springfield, Missouri; Rockford, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Roanoke, Virginia; Lawton, Oklahoma ...
ever tried cigarette smoking, even one or two puffs), (2) current cigarette use (i ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
As more people light up, some US officials are saying cigars should abide by the same rules as cigarettes ...
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 ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

Our Internet search efforts identified 147 Web site addresses for Internet cigarette vendors based in the United States ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
Calls to several Internet cigarette vendors advertising ``tax free cigarettes'' were not returned to The Associated Press on Monday ...
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 each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...

Former NM Inmate Sues Prison Operators

In the same time period, cigar sales jumped from $ 613 million to $ 876 million, representing the purchase of 4 ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
Roberts, who filed the suit last week in Santa Fe District Court, claims that because of his exposure to environmental tobacco smoke as an inmate at the county jail, and 12 to 15 days, respectively, according to the suit ...

Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter

States are losing millions in tax dollars as more people buy cigarettes from online vendors who routinely ignore a federal law requiring them to report sales to local regulators, a new report says ...
None of the Web sites posted information that indicated the vendors complied with the Jenkins Act,'' the report said ...

Big Tobacco Uses Unscrupulous Marketing Strategies

For this analysis, temporal changes for three behaviors were assessed: (1) lifetime cigarette use (i ...
According to the suit, he was able to quit his habit of one to five cigarettes once he was transferred out of the Santa Fe County jail June 8, 2000 ...
Public-health groups are pointing to a sharp rise in teenage cigar smoking at the same time the industry has increased its advertising ...
On Independence Day they threw a free bash on a yacht docked in New York Harbor ...

Attorneys Attack Youth Smoking

Federal and state officials are taking aim at the rolled-up tobacco leaves, which recent research has found may have an even greater health ...
The company also agreed to ban self-service displays of tobacco products, end distribution of free tobacco product samples on store property and use store security cameras to monitor compliance ...
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 ...