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Thu, Jun 12
Kids moving away from cigs, TV — but they have other problems
Times are a-changin’ — and fewer high school students today are smoking cigarettes than ever before in the history of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
That’s a clean victory for public health officials, who have worked for decades to curb the use of cigarettes among young people.
According to the 2013 results, released Thursday, 15.7 percent of high school students report smoking, which beat the U.S. goal of reducing cigarette smoking among adolescents to 16 percent or less by 2020.
That’s the good news.