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JAMA. 2000;283:3190-3191.

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MMWR. 2000;49:438-441

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The average per capita cigarette consumption in Hungary is among the highest in the world (World Health Organization [WHO], unpublished data, 1997).¹ In 1999, the Metropolitan Institute of State Public Health and Public Health Officer Service, Budapest, Hungary, collaborating with CDC, conducted a survey of cigarette smoking among secondary school students aged 14-18 years in Budapest (1999 population of Budapest: approximately 2 million), similar to a survey conducted in 1995.² This report summarizes the survey findings, which indicate that current smoking among secondary school students in Budapest increased from 36% in 1995 to 46% in 1999.

The objective of the 1999 survey was to compare changes that had occurred since the 1995 survey in the prevalence of current* cigarette smoking, in the factors associated with current cigarette smoking, and in the smoking behaviors of current cigarette smokers (i.e., number of cigarettes smoked per day and . . . [Full Text of this Article]