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• Teen smoking at new low  

Jump to full article: Independent Newspapers Ltd. / STUFF (nz), 2009-06-11
Author: KATHERINE NEWTON - Wellington

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DYING BREED: Sixteen-year-old Jayden Marshal may smoke but 66 per cent of his Wellington peers have never tried it.

The number of teens puffing on cigarettes has dropped to a record low, an annual survey of smoking habits shows.

But the survey's author has warned that new smokefree policies are needed as the impact of existing regulations fades and the reduction in teenage smoking rates slows.

Action on Smoking and Health's Year 10 Snapshot Survey 2008 shows a record 61 per cent of year 10 pupils (14- and 15-year-olds) nationwide have never tried smoking, compared with 32 per cent in 1999, when the survey began.

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