Chapter 15 Children and teen smoking

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75% of the teens ages 16 to 18 years held in New York City jails are smokers.

JAMA, August 26, 1990, p. 1509

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Smoking among high school students is climbing, with daily smoking among 12th

graders (21.6 percent) at its highest level since 1979. And juvenile smoking may have

become a "white thing." While 38.9% of teens in predominantly white West Virginia

smoke, only 16.7% of teens in the mostly black District of Columbia do. Overall,

among Americans 18 and over, 22.4% now smoke, or 47 million in all.

US News and World Report, February 5, 1996, p. 16

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Half of all regular cigarette smokers who began as teenagers will die as a result of

smoking, a quarter of them dying before age 70 and losing 20-25 years of life

expectancy, and a quarter of them dying because of their habit in old age, losing

about 8 years life expectancy.

Tobacco and Health, p. 83

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Precancerous patches of tissue, or leukoplakia, are found in the mouth of about half of

current teenage smokeless tobacco users. With continued use, about one in 20 such

lesions will become cancerous within five years.

Consumer Reports, March 1995, p. 146

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Past-month tobacco use averages 30.5 percent for high school students (grades 9

through 12) nationwide, peaking at 38.9 percent in West Virginia and 36.7 percent in

South Dakota.

US Medicine, May 1996

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