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Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
For current cigarette use, temporal changes and subgroup differences in 2003 were analyzed by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
1 One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of current cigarette use among high school students to 16% (objective no ...
smoked cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...
ever tried cigarette smoking , even one or two puffs), (2) current cigarette use (i ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

Officials can then establish policies that limit smoking without fear of reducing their revenue from the tobacco settlement ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
During 1991-2003, sample sizes ranged from 10,904 to 16,296, school response rates ranged from 70% to 81%, student response rates ranged from 83% to 90%, and overall response rates ranged from 60% to 70 ...
What's ironic is that states that have already securitized their payments don't care about damaging cigarette sales because they've already collected their money,'' Gonze said ...

Cuba Steps Up National Campaign Against Cigarettes

This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that although (1) the prevalence of lifetime cigarette use was stable among high school students during the 1990s and (2) the prevalence of both current and current frequent cigarette use increased into the late 1990s, all ...
But it's a daunting task in a nation that has had a steamy love affair with tobacco for more than five centuries ...
A DRI-Wefa forecast released in January was based on expectations of fewer state tax increases, said Jim Diffley, group managing director at the Eddystone ...
Rather than take their share in annual installments, some municipalities have sold bonds that will be paid off by the settlement, which is estimated to generate a total of $285 billion through 2032 ...
Alarmed, health officials are promoting new no- smoking zones and increasing tobacco education in the schools ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

The traffickers purchase a large volume of cigarettes in states where the tax is low, such as Virginia and North Carolina, transport them up Interstate 95 to states such as Maryland , New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and then sell them at a discount without paying the higher cigarette taxes in those states ...
Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations ...
smokers will consume fewer cigarettes because of per-pack tax increases in 18 states and New York City, according to a forecast by DRI-Wefa Inc ...
CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...

Secret Weapon Against Underage Smoking

smokers will consume fewer cigarettes because of per-pack tax increases in 18 states and New York City, according to a forecast by DRI-Wefa Inc ...
What's ironic is that states that have already securitized their payments don't care about damaging cigarette sales because they've already collected their money,'' Gonze said ...
That positive health news may have negative implications for investors in tobacco bonds ...
states, counties and cities, and Guam, Puerto Rico and Washington, have sold a total of about $10 billion in tobacco bonds ...

Tobacco Makers Want Cigarettes Cut from Films

CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
Salisbury, the tobacco enforcement officer for the Prince George's County Health Department, is a former Baltimore street patrol officer with a unique mission ...
Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effects simultaneously and controlled ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations ...
smoked cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...

Nicotine Yes, Tobacco No

Source: Federation of Tax Administrator Eddystone, Pennsylvania, -- U ...
Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations ...
The lucrative trafficking of cigarettes, known as cigarette diversion, is a simple scheme but difficult to stop, law enforcement officials say ...

Maryland State Prisons Go Smoke Free

Sondervan, commissioner of correction for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said he doesn't expect that the extra enforcement will be needed ...
A ban on cigarette smoking goes into effect today at Maryland 's 25 state prisons, and some correctional officers and inmates are worried about potential violence from the more than 11,000 inmates who smoke and are being forced to quit ...
Moments later, the woman behind the counter was the recipient of a $50 ticket for selling cigarettes to ...
Those numbers mean something, Salisbury said, because 50 percent of those who smoke begin by age 14, and 90 percent begin before age 19 ...

Health Officials Gather to Protest Cigarettes Targeted to Hook Minority Youth

6 million packs were sold in the month, a 47 percent drop from July 2001 ...
Other trendy cigarette brands feature a blend of menthol tobacco with flavors like berry, mocha, coconut or lime ...
What's ironic is that states that have already securitized their payments don't care about damaging cigarette sales because they've already collected their money,'' Gonze said ...
Seven years after he traded two or three packs of cigarettes each day for a dozen pieces of the gum called Nicorette, the retired paper mill manager finds himself saddled with another habit he'd like to break ...
The latest cigarette-marketing efforts have caught the attention of health officials and anti-tobacco activists, who are accusing tobacco companies of using hip-hop images and attractive flavors to seduce minority youth into smoking ...