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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 15 Children and teen smoking |
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| | Before RJR Nabisco purchased the Weekly Reader, which now reaches more than 8 |
| | million school children, 62% of its tobacco articles were anti-smoking. After the |
| | purchase, the figure dropped to 24%. |
| | Washington Monthly, December 1995, p. 5 |
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| | The more than one million young people who start to smoke each year will add an |
| | estimated $10 billion to the cost of health care in the US during their lifetimes. |
| | Tobacco Use, p. 34 |
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| | In response to the question "Do you think that you will be smoking cigarettes five years |
| | from now?" nearly 9 of every 10 high school seniors who smoked predicted they |
| | would be off the habit. But in follow-ups of those who smoked a pack a day, 70% were |
| | still smoking a pack or more five or six years later. |
| | US News and World Report, September 26, 1994, p. 24 |
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| | One third to one half of children who experiment with even a few cigarettes go on to |
| | become regular smokers, a process that takes an average of two to three years. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, April 1994, p. 544 |
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| | About 30% of cigarette experimenters eventually become established smokers; in |
| | California, over half (50.7%) of 17 year-olds had experimented with cigarettes. A |
| | University of California, San Diego study estimated that tobacco promotional |
| | activities influenced 34% of these adolescents, or 17% of the total population of this |
| | age, to experiment with cigarettes before they reached age 18. Nationally, this would |
| | be over 700,000 adolescents each year. This is the first longitudinal evidence that |
| | tobacco promotional activities are causally related to the onset of smoking. |
| | JAMA, February 18, 1998, pp. 511-515 |
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