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After a troubling spell of stagnation, youth smoking rates have resumed their decline. In their 2007 Monitoring the Future Survey, researchers at the National Institute of Drug Abuse were relieved to find fewer of the nation's eighth-graders and 10th-graders smoking.

Still, too many young people develop the tobacco habit that kills more than 400,000 Americans each year. More than 21 percent of high school seniors smoke.

"The fact that over a fifth of our young people are smoking when they leave high school, given all that is known today about the health consequences, is hardly the basis for complacency," said University of Michigan research scientist Lloyd Johnston, the study's principal investigator.

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