The rate of drop in teen smoking has slowed down or become more sloth-like after seeing a number of years of progress and great amount of efforts are necessary to upturn this latest finding, said the CDC’s new report.
Across all racial and ethnic associations, as well as amongst males and females, there has been either sluggishness or leveling off of the rate of drop, study researcher, Terry Pechacek, PhD, Associate Director of CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, tells WebMD.
Pechacek, Author of the report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for July 9, 2010 said that due to this slowing trend, thousands of youths are developing an addiction of smoking from due to which one in three dies before the stated time.
After the kind of drop that has been seen the objective to attaining tremendous success in maintaining the rate of decline will be not be achieved.
Partially to blame has been a decline in concentrated anti-smoking crusades, he says, and a lot of formerly successful attempts have been blocked by states, mostly due to financial reasons, Pechacek says.
CDC Director, Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, says in a news release that even though four in five high school students did not smoke, it is discouraging to see the existing scenario.
Across all racial and ethnic associations, as well as amongst males and females, there has been either sluggishness or leveling off of the rate of drop, study researcher, Terry Pechacek, PhD, Associate Director of CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, tells WebMD.
Pechacek, Author of the report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for July 9, 2010 said that due to this slowing trend, thousands of youths are developing an addiction of smoking from due to which one in three dies before the stated time.
After the kind of drop that has been seen the objective to attaining tremendous success in maintaining the rate of decline will be not be achieved.
Partially to blame has been a decline in concentrated anti-smoking crusades, he says, and a lot of formerly successful attempts have been blocked by states, mostly due to financial reasons, Pechacek says.
CDC Director, Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, says in a news release that even though four in five high school students did not smoke, it is discouraging to see the existing scenario.
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