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JAMA. 2002;288:308-309.

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MMWR. 2002;51:409-412

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Cigarette smoking among adolescents is one of the 10 Leading Health Indicators that reflect the major health concerns in the United States.¹ To examine changes in cigarette smoking among U.S. high school students during 1991-2001, CDC analyzed data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). This report summarizes the results of the analysis, which found that although cigarette smoking rates increased during most of the 1990s, they have declined significantly since 1997. If this pattern continues, the United States could achieve the national health objective for 2010 of reducing current smoking rates among high school students to 16% (objective no. 27-2b).¹

YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, measures the prevalence of health risk behaviors among high school students through representative biennial national, state, and local surveys. The 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001 national surveys used independent three-stage cluster . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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