Study Says Teenagers Are Avidly Shunning Cigarettes - New York Times

Posted on: March 10th, 2006
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“The causes for the relatively high prevalence of smoking in those groups are not clearly understood. Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the health commissioner, said the rates may reflect higher percentages of parental smoking on Staten Island and “cultural norms” that make white students more susceptible to film, television and Internet images that glorify smoking.

Indeed, the biggest declines in youth smoking since 1997 have been among black and Hispanic students. They are on the whole poorer than white students, a factor that may discourage smoking as cigarette taxes rise.”

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