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Antismoking Efforts Should Target Adults Too

we really need to use all the methods we can to reduce or prevent smoking ...
Campaign efforts should be directed towards adults instead, they suggest ...

Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
ever tried cigarette smoking , even one or two puffs), (2) current cigarette use (i ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 ...

Study: Strategies to Reduce ETS Exposure to Infants

Only a small proportion of respondents reported not knowing of any harm reduction measures or knowing of measures but not using them ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
The strengths of our study were that we sampled a representative population of smoking households with infants, we assessed the cotinine to creatinine ratio, which corrects for dilution of urine, and we studied a narrow age range of infants thus reducing the variation associated with differential speed of metabolism and excretion of nicotine ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

If we have 40 out of 50 states with state budget deficits, sin taxes are a popular place to go ...
6 million packs were sold in the month, a 47 percent drop from July 2001 ...
Officials can then establish policies that limit smoking without fear of reducing their revenue from the tobacco settlement ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

Any new rules would come at a time when smoking cigars is on the rise ...
Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
Last year, according to the American Lung Association, 38 percent of movies included a cigar scene ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
For this analysis, temporal changes for three behaviors were assessed: (1) lifetime cigarette use (i ...

Proposes Root Beer Smelling Cigarette

Cigarette manufacturers use ammonia in cigarettes to enhance the effect of nicotine, two attorneys for the state said in a hearing Wednesday in which they sought more tobacco industry documents about ammonia technology ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
an affiliate of Brown and Williamson -- is titled Project Kestrel ...

Tobacco Documents Show Industry Intentionally Discounted Health Risks

scientist, Alan Rodgman, concluded that there is a `distinct possibility' that substances in cigarette smoke could have a carcinogenic effect ,'' the court wrote ...
CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
the foregoing documents reasonably lead to the conclusion that the Tobacco Industry, and the individual defendants, intentionally denied or minimized known ...
That positive health news may have negative implications for investors in tobacco bonds ...

Learn Why This Session Could Be The Most Important

Source: Federation of Tax Administrator Eddystone, Pennsylvania, -- U ...
The group we studied was chosen to coincide with the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome ...
At issue is whether the sensitive documents were protected under the attorney-client privilege ...
Acting at the suggestion of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the 10th World Conference of Tobacco OR Health has added a special session to its already crowded agenda ...

Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke

Cigarette advertising and promotion was the single most important factor in predicting which adolescents progressed toward smoking ...
For current cigarette use, temporal changes and subgroup differences in 2003 were analyzed by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Over the past five years, the cigar industry has told the American public to light up a cigar to celebrate good times ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

The cigarettes could have colored paper and perhaps black packs since ``the youth of today tend to associate with the color black,'' the memo said ...
The sample consisted of about 1,700 adolescents who were between the ages of 12 and 17 in 1993 ...
In the May order, the judge noted that the government has made a case that the tobacco industry over the years has assured the public that it would not knowingly distribute a dangerous product and in fact that it was committed to providing safe products ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti- smoking therapies and modified tobacco products have the potential to reduce the danger of smoking , but not enough is known about their use to be certain, a research panel said Thursday ...