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• Teens butting out 

A new study, released earlier this week, by the state's education and public health departments found that high school smoking dropped by 2 percent - from 20 percent to 18 percent - from 2005 to 2007, following a trend that says teen smoking statewide has been cut in half since 1995.

"We are especially pleased about the decline in tobacco use among Massachusetts adolescents," Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach said. "Fewer young people are smoking before age 13, fewer are experimenting with cigarettes and few middle school students are smoking."

However, the report also says that nearly one in four Massachusetts high school seniors still smoke cigarettes.

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