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Oncology NEWS International. Vol. 5 No. 7 CDC Says Teen Smoking Still Rising
July 1, 1996
ATLANTA--The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has issued a report stating that teenage smoking has increased
from 27.5% of all high school students in 1991 to 34.8% in 1995.
And smoking among African-American boys has doubled, from 14.1%
in 1991 to 27.8% in 1995.
Michael Eriksen, director of the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health,
said that smoking rates have "gone up for every group except
for black teenage girls."
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