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Volume
7: No. 3, May 2010
BRIEF
Changes in Youth Cigarette Use Following the Dismantling of an Antitobacco Media Campaign in Florida
| Population |
Prevalence (%) |
| Sept. 1998 |
May 1999 |
Oct. 1999 |
May 2000 |
Oct. 2000 |
May 2001 |
May 2004 |
Dec. 2006 |
| ≤15 y |
7.0 |
7.3 |
8.2 |
10.5 |
9.4 |
5.7 |
5.9 |
6.1 |
| ≥16
y |
20.6 |
20.6 |
19.3 |
16.0 |
14.7 |
13.4 |
9.9 |
12.0 |
| Total Sample |
15.0 |
13.7 |
13.4 |
13.9 |
12.3 |
10.3 |
8.9 |
9.5 |
Figure. Prevalence of smoking among Florida youth aged
15 years or younger, aged 16 years or older, and the entire sample (N = 1,800),
September 1998-December 2006. Data for 1998-2001 were collected during the
"truth" antitobacco media campaign; data for 2004 and 2006 were collected after
the campaign ended.
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