© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group
INTRODUCTION
Youth tobacco use research in the USA: progress and challenges
1 American Cancer Society, Washington DC, USA
2 Abt Associates, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Thomas J Glynn
PhD, American Cancer Society, 901 E Street, NW Suite 500, Washington DC, USA;
tglynn1@cancer.org
Keywords: youth tobacco use; National Cancer Institute; National Institutes of Health
Abbreviations: NCI, National Cancer Institute; NIH, National Institutes of Health; RFA, Requests for Applications
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Efforts to control tobacco use and tobacco related morbidity and mortality in the USA have met with reasonable success, at least through the early part of the 1990s. In the 39 years since the publication of the first Surgeon General’s Report on Tobacco and Health, adult smoking rates in the USA have declined by nearly 40%, although only a modest portion of that decline has occurred during the past decade. Nevertheless, less than a quarter of the US population now smokes and other indices of success, such as changing attitudes toward tobacco use in public places, a near universal perception of tobacco use as a health hazard, and support for laws and regulations restricting tobacco use all point to continued progress in tobacco control among the US adult population.
Controlling tobacco use among youth, however, has presented a greater challenge in recent years. Although there was considerable progress in reducing
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