Thus increased cigarette taxes are proposed as a means to reduce smoking.
More comprehensive interventions than school health education alone will be needed to reduce teenage smoking.
Moreover, public health education efforts to reduce smoking have been least effective among women, the researchers said.
"But it offers a real chance for reducing underage smoking."
Where is the evidence that we can reduce juvenile smoking by 60 percent over 7 to 10 years?
It is argued that at least for children, who are not addicted and have little money, raising the tax would reduce smoking.
Advertising is an important part of the state's $499 million program to reduce smoking.
But the most powerful impact we can have on saving lives is through reducing smoking among children and adults.
Reducing smoking is expected to benefit pregnant women and their offspring.
Fighting the tobacco producers is not the way to reduce smoking.