Wednesday, June 08 2011
7th and 8th graders are buying flavored cigars which are easier to get than cigarettes.
WTAM 1100 News Radio | Cleveland, OH
Fewer middle schoolers are smoking cigarettes, but more and more are puffing on cigars.
The new Cuyahoga County Middle School Risk Behavior Survey shows that about 9% of seventh and eighth graders are using those flavored cigars, compared to 4% for cigarettes.
The survey is done every two years by the Prevention Research Venter for Healthy Neighborhoods based at Case Western Reserve University. Erica Trapl is associate director of the Center for Health Promotion Research at the Case School of Medicine. She says the stogies are easier to buy than cigarettes because they aren't as strictly regulated, and are sold as singles instead of in packs.
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