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More young girls smoking and using tobacco worldwide - Brief Article

Worldwide, the gender gap among adolescents who use tobacco is shrinking, according to an Aug 7, 2003, news release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey of more than one million 13- to 15-year-old students in more than 150 countries found that mate and female youths are smoking at similar rates in 51% of the survey sites and using noncigarette tobacco products at similar rates in 70% of the sites.

These findings suggest that estimates of future tobacco-related deaths are low because they are based on current patterns of tobacco use among adults. Currently, adult females are only 25% as likely as men to smoke. The World Health Organization attributes 4.9 million deaths per year to tobacco use. This figure is expected to double in 20 to 30 years, but this projection does not reflect the high rate of tobacco use among young girls.

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Data from the tobacco survey is intended to help countries design, implement, and evaluate tobacco control and prevention programs. Survey results indicate a need for programs specific to gender and broadened in scope to address use of other tobacco products in addition to cigarettes.

Over Half of Sites in Global Youth Tobacco Survey Show No Gender Difference in Cigarette Smoking (news release, Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Aug 7, 2003) http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r030807.htm (accessed 22 Aug 2003).

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More young girls smoking and using tobacco worldwide - Brief Article

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