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Jump to full article: New York Times, 2000-09-01
Author: DAVID STOUT
Intro: It estimates that 6,400 people tried marijuana for the first time in 1998. That year, an estimated 1.6 million people -- half younger than 18 -- took up cigarette smoking. And 4.9 million tried cigars for the first time in 1998, up from 1.5 million new cigar smokers in 1991.
"We have a long way to go," Dr.
Shalala said, "miles to go in our journey to a drug free America." [This graph only]
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