Navigating Healthcare – Patient Safety and Personal Healthcare Management

Teen smoking

Posted in Uncategorized by drnic on March 12, 2012
I what appears to be a reversal of the downward trend in smoking teenagers appear to be taking up smoking in increasing numbers prompting the surgeon general to declare teen smoking to be an epidemic. Over half a million middle school children and over three million high school students smoke.

It is not clear why but there is a clear problem with tobacco promotion in young adults and teenagers and w need to address this quickly.

D.C. Week: Teen Smoking Called Epidemic

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