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12/15/2009

The annual Monitoring the Future study indicates that the use of smokeless-tobacco products reached an 11-year high among 12th-graders nationwide in 2009. The rate of use among 8th-graders rose from 3.5 percent in 2008 to 3.7 percent in 2009. The use among 10th-graders increased from 5 percent to 6.5 percent. By comparison, 20.1 percent of 12th-graders said they smoked within a 30-day period, compared with 20.4 percent in 2008.