title: Cigarette smoking among youth--United States, 1989.
abstract: In 1988, an estimated 434,000 persons in the United States died as a result of cigarette smoking. About three fourths of adults who have ever been regular cigarette smokers reported trying their first cigarette before their 18th birthday (National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA], unpublished data), and about half of them had become regular smokers by that time (2; NIDA, unpublished data). This report, based on the Teenage Attitudes and Practices Survey (TAPS), presents the prevalence of self-reported smoking among U.S. adolescents aged 12-18 years during 1989.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology