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Youth Lit Up Less in '09: Peer Pressure Helps Achieve Record-low Smoking, Report Says

3/26/2010

A North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund report indicates that peer pressure had a positive influence in driving youth smoking rates to a record low in 2009. The report found that the smoking rate for high-school students dropped to 16.7 percent in 2008 from 19 percent in 2007 and 27.3 percent in 2003. The fund credits its youth prevention and cessation initiatives with playing a significant role in getting peers to discourage smoking and altering cultural and social norms about cigarettes.

Source: Winston-Salem Journal

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