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| ► | Everyday, more than 3,000 young people in the United States become regular smokers. That's more than one million kids a year. Roughly one-third of them will eventually die from a tobacco related disease. (Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention) | |||||||
| ► | Nearly 35 percent of high school students and almost 13 percent of middle school students use some form of tobacco. (Source: 1999 National Youth Tobacco Survey) | |||||||
| ► | More than one quarter of high school students and about 1 in 10 middle school students are current cigarette smokers. (Source: 1999 National Youth Tobacco Survey) | |||||||
| ► | Eighty-nine percent of adult daily smokers began before the age of 18. (Source: Department of Health and Human Services, Report of the Surgeon General, 1994) | |||||||
| ► | Eighty-six percent of teens that smoke use one of the three most heavily advertised brands: Marlboro, Camel, or Newport. (Source: Campaign for Tobacco-Kids) | |||||||
| ► | Seventy percent of adolescent smokers wish they had never started smoking in the first place. (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) | |||||||
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| ► | Nearly 30 percent of Florida high school students and 13 percent of middle schools students use some form of tobacco. (Source: 2000 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey, Florida Department of Health) | |||||||
| ► | Moore than one in five Florida high school students and more than eight percent of Florida middle school students have smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days. (Source: 2000 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey, Florida Department of Health) | |||||||
| ► | Among Florida high school students, 16.3 percent have smoked cigars and 5.4 percent use smokeless tobacco. High school boys are more likely than girls to usesmokeless tobacco. (Source: 2000 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey, Florida Department of Health) | |||||||
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