Tobacco Use
State Policies May Result in Lower Teen Smoking Rates
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 8th, 2000
"To our knowledge this is the first time that a relationship has been empirically demonstrated between implemented state tobacco control policies and teen smoking," said lead author Douglas A. Luke, PhD.
While cigarette smoking has declined over the past 40 years, more than one million Americans still become smokers every year - and most of them are adolescents.
Luke and colleagues from the Saint Louis University School of Public Health in Missouri compared two sets of data: the U.S. National...
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