Professionally-gathered
data from the second year of Tobacco Free Amarillo
indicated:
Between
2002 and 2003, the percent of adolescents who
reported current smoking decreased from 31.2%
to 17.2% for the grades surveyed (grades 6, 8,
9 and 12).
Current
smokeless tobacco use decreased from 11.4% to 5.6%.
The percent
of students reporting daily smoking decreased from
9.6% to 5.2%.
The frequency
of daily use of smokeless tobacco decreased from
2.4% to 1.6%.
Increasing
pressure on Hollywood to rate future smoking movies “R,” a
broad multi-state coalition today launched a national
campaign with survey results showing Hollywood’s
kid-rated movies made 15.8 billion potentially
lethal tobacco impressions on U.S. movie audiences
since 1999. Locally, the Tobacco Free Amarillo
coalition voiced support for the campaign.
Amarillo,
TX 79109