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“Fewer teenagers are smoking cigarettes than ever before.”
“Just 11 percent of high school students said they currently smoked in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. That number stood at 15.7 percent in 2013 and 18.1 percent in 2011. And just under a third of the students asked said they had ever tried a cigarette, the CDC found in its annual survey of risky behavior among U.S. children and teenagers. There’s lots of good news in the survey, which shows many risk-taking behaviors, such as early sex and smoking, are down.”
“But teenagers more than replaced traditional cigarettes with e-cigarettes, a trend that worries the CDC.”
“The annual CDC survey found that 24 percent of high school students reported using e-cigarettes during the past 30 days. It’s the first time that question has been asked on this particular survey, so there’s no way to know if that’s changed from years before.”
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