title: Tobacco use as a public health issue.
abstract: Almost one-quarter of all adults are current smokers, along with more than a third of all high school students. Although a small drop in underage smoking from 1997 to 1998 has interrupted the otherwise steady increases in youth smoking since the early 1990s, smoking among kids is still at historically high levels. Over the past 10 years the number of kids under 18 who become daily smokers each year has increased by more than 70 percent.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*