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- *The table above
shows the daily cigarette smoking among high school seniors through 1993.
Alarmingly, the latest figures show that smoking among high school seniors
is at a 19-year high -- 36.9% (see red arrow).
- source: Institute for Social Research. University of Michigan.
Monitoring the Future Study
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- In 1997, 22.7% of African American high school students were
smokers -- up
- from 12.6% only six years earlier.
- source: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - US 1993 and 1997
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- Smoking among Hispanic high school students increased from
25.3% in 1991 to 34.0% in 1997
- source: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - US 1993 and 1997
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