The risky behaviors of American high school students appear to be shifting from long-standing vices – such as smoking, fighting and drinking – to health concerns that have surfaced with ...

One-third of high school smokers are expected to die prematurely of tobacco-related disease, said Mr. Pechacek, the associate director for science in the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health.

The most ambitious, school-based smoking-prevention study of its kind has found that teaching youth how to identify and resist social influences to smoke - the main focus of smoking-prevention ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU and Wires) - Fewer teens are smoking cigarettes, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however that decline has been ...

Vaping, Juuling are the new smoking for high school kids Fewer kids smoke than in 2011, but numbers barely changed from 2016 to 2017 A woman enjoys an e-cigarette at the Vapor Shark store on ...

The study, which appears in the April 12 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, identifies how friends' and parental influence on cigarette smoking changes from junior high to high school ...

The Cape Girardeau Central High School students who show off the substance are looking for just that reaction. It's all part of an anti-tobacco presentation to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders in ...

Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered Believe it or not: smoking cigarettes can cause serious damage to your health right now and in the near future... not just 40 years down the line.

Cuyahoga County high school students are smoking tobacco products at the same rate as adults in the county, according to new data from the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) ...

Fewer high school students are smoking tobacco than ever before, but Florida and local health officials think they can get that number even lower — and they're turning to schools for help ...