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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior
Publication Fights Epidemic Of Smoking Among Teenage Girls
October 4th, 2001
It is back-to-school time, and unless things change by the start of the 2002 school year, more than 250,000 teenage girls will have become regular smokers. About one-third of these girls will eventually die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses such as heart disease, far more than will die from breast cancer. How to stop those girls from smoking is the subject of the latest issue of the National Women's Health Report, published by the National Women's Health Resource Center. "The start of a new school year is a highly stressful time for teenagers, a time when they are very susceptible to starting smoking," said Amy Niles, the executive...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-10-04)
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