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A major warning
for family physicians, pediatricians, and adolescent health officials should be
a warning for women as well. Doctors are being asked to pay special attention
to whether or not teenage patients are smoking cigarettes, in particular,
females. It seems to be growing in this group. If you think about it, if
doctors are being told to look out for a problem, it means adults should as
well. Why all the attention? Well, after steadily decreasing in the 90′s,
adolescent smoking rates have increased. They’ve reached a level well above
national goals. Part of the problem…it’s being dramatized in the media.
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