Trends in smoking initiation among adolescents and young adults - United States, 1980-1989

Article Abstract:

Increasing numbers of US adolescents began to smoke between 1985 and 1989. During the 1980s, researchers surveyed 71,321 people between the ages of 17 and 34 about their smoking history. Approximately 5% of adolescents became first-time smokers in 1980. The adolescent smoking initiation rate decreased slightly to 4.7% in 1984 and increased through 1989 to 5.5%. The largest yearly increase in the percentage of first-time adolescent smokers occurred in 1988. In young adults, the percentage of first-time smokers decreased between 1980 and 1989. Males and females in both age groups had similar smoking initiation rates and trends. The increase in the percentage of first-time adolescent smokers coincided with increased marketing expenditures by cigarette companies. Intensive smoking prevention efforts aimed at youth may include making cigarettes less affordable, conducting mass media campaigns, enforcing cigarette laws, and controlling tobacco marketing.

Young adults, Demographic aspects, Teenagers, Youth, Smokers, Smoking and youth, Youth smoking

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Cluster of HIV-Positive Young Women--New York, 1997-1998

Article Abstract:

Ten or more women may have been infected with HIV from the same infected sexual partner in rural New York, according to CDC. At least one-third of 42 women identified as sexual partners of the infected man tested positive for HIV. The high rate of disease transmission indicates that many of the sexual contacts occurred soon after the man became infected, or late in the course of disease progression, when the blood level of the virus is high.

United States, Reports, Disease transmission, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Cluster of HIV-Infected Adolescents and Young Adults--Mississippi, 1999

Article Abstract:

The identification of 14 HIV-infected teenagers and young adults a small town in rural Mississippi illustrates the importance of testing all people who visit a sexually transmitted diseases clinic for HIV. Two of the infected teenagers were identified this way, five more were identified via contacts, and seven people in their social network were also infected.

Diseases, Mississippi, Rural population

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