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Teen Smoking

5 Ways Parents Can Help Stop Their Kids From Smoking

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2013 | Parents
Read More: Smoking Prevention, Tobacco Industry, Parenting, Tobacco, Smoking, Youth Smoking, Claire McCarthy, Teen Smoking, Kids and Smoking, Parents News
Claire McCarthy, M.D.

For every person who dies from smoking -- about 1,200 a day -- two youths or young adults become smokers. Ninety percent of these "replacement" smokers have their first cigarette before they are 18 years old. One of them could be your kid.

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Jason Cherkis

Up In Smoke: Romney Spiked Massachusetts' Model Anti-Smoking Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- In the mid 1980s, Massachusetts Department of Public Health official Gregory Connolly began a seemingly hopeless campaign to end smoking...

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Jason Cherkis

Mitt Romney's Bain Helped U.S. High Schoolers Get Hooked On Marlboros

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 10.16.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- When Mitt Romney served as CEO of Bain & Co., his consulting firm helped tobacco giant Philip Morris develop a groundbreaking sales stra...

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Report: Smoking Among High School Students Declines In 2011

Posted 08.13.2012 | Home
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A National Youth Tobacco Survey study released Thursday reports a 1.4 percent decrease in smoking among high school students, from 17.2 percent in 200...

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Chick-Fil-A And Other Brands That Have Become Ideological Battlefields

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.02.2012 | Business
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A national debate is currently raging. Not over the merits of a war, the fairness of a national election or the scandal of a highly publicized celebri...

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More U.S. Teens Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes

Posted 06.08.2012 | Teen
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More U.S. teens are now smoking marijuana than cigarettes, according to a new government survey. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

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Why Are So Many Teens Still Smoking?

AP | By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 03.08.2012 | Teen
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RICHMOND, Va. -- More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacc...

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Christiana Lilly

High School Kids: Less Puffing, More Dipping

HuffingtonPost.com | Christiana Lilly | Posted 03.02.2012 | Miami
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MIAMI -- High school students in Miami-Dade County may not be puffing as much, but they’ve turned to chewing and dipping instead. From 2005 to 20...

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If Weed Is a Gateway Drug, then Alcohol Is Too

Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie | Posted 04.25.2012 | Home
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Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie

Weed is almost easier to get than alcohol -- it's basically legal in California. But parents still swear up and down that their kids aren't smoking weed.

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