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Overall smoking down, tobacco use among kids levels off 

A new report shows fewer Iowans are buying cigarettes, but the percentage of young people using tobacco has leveled off. The 2009 Tobacco Control Progress Report was compiled by researchers at the University of Northern Iowa.

It shows cigarette consumption in the state dropped 52% from 2006 to 2009. Cathy Callaway, chair of the Iowa Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Commission, gives credit to the buck-a-pack hike in the cigarette excise tax in 2007 and the 2008 Smokefree Air Act. The news is offset by very slight changes in tobacco use among young people.

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