Posted on 06/18/2004 9:02:10 AM PDT by Wolfie
U.S. Finds Fewer Teens Smoking
Anti-Tobacco Ads, Rise in Taxation Cited in Drop-Off
ATLANTA - Smoking among U.S. high school students has fallen to about one in five -- the lowest level in at least a generation -- in a drop-off the government attributes to anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette taxes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that nearly 22 percent of high school students said they were smokers in 2003. That is down from more than 36 percent in 1997, and the lowest level since the CDC began keeping track in 1975.
The drop was so dramatic that for the first time in more than two decades, the percentage of high school smokers is lower than the percentage of adult smokers. That was seen as an especially encouraging sign by the government.
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I think it's just a bunch of propaganda, myself.
Well we better raise taxes then, I mean we need the money!
Well they may not be smoking as much but according to all the recent report I've seen lately,they are too busy having sex.
Where's the outrage?
And the fact that there is nowhere left to smoke except outside.
Actually, I think what they're really doing is playing video games. I gather these games are tremendous time sinks.
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
An obvious, in-your-face example of just why we sould fear our government. And we just let it happen. I wonder if anyone has made a list of the decisions made for us by our government through the power of taxation, local, state and federal.
Yeah, I'm a smoker. But what's next folks?
And still drinking and driving and wrapping themselves around trees. But oh well, I guess it's ok as long as they aren't smoking.
(I can get really pissed off with this!)
Hard to say. The same report shows that for the first time, teen marijuana use is greater than cigarette use.
First of all, just because this drop coincided with an ad campaign doesn't mean one caused the other. And not all ad campaigns are created equal; did the anti-smoking campaign, for example, use the argument that smoking would cause one to gun down one's friend (as a recent silly anti-pot ad did)?
I've never seen a "just say no" ad that was remotely useful for stopping anybody from doing anything. Most of their anti-smoking ads give me the jones for a butt.
Assuming that the attorneys worked 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, for 42 months, they would earn $92,593 per hour -- that's $7,716 per hour for each of the 12 lawyers. -http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-06-99.html
I think I'll go smoke one of those Ghurkas that I got from CI, and ponder whether I need to go back to school, and get a law degree!
cigarettes may be down but pot is up
Indeed, pot use is ahead of tobacco use for the first time. But then again, drug dealers don't put up a "We Card" sign.
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