Jump to full article: Rapid City (SD) Journal, 2002-12-27
Intro: The rate of Wyoming high school seniors who smoke has fallen to its lowest level in 27 years, according to the Sheridan County Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition.
Rusti Woods, the coalition's program manager, credits higher excise taxes on tobacco, increased enforcement of laws prohibiting tobacco sales to minors and other prevention efforts.
But Woods said she is still concerned about the 28.4 percent of high school students who say they smoke and the 19.3 percent of male high schoolers who use smokeless tobacco.
According to the statewide Prevention Needs Assessment 2002, the percentage of Wyoming 10th- and 12th-graders who smoke daily ranges from 6.3 percent in Niobrara County to 25.4 percent in Crook County. A figure for Sweetwater County was not available.
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