HONOLULU (AP) — A new federal health study finds that fewer Hawaii teens are smoking cigarettes. ADVERTISING HONOLULU (AP) — A new federal health study finds that fewer Hawaii teens are smoking cigarettes. Just 5.4 percent of teenagers said they
HONOLULU (AP) — A new federal health study finds that fewer Hawaii teens are smoking cigarettes.
Just 5.4 percent of teenagers said they smoked a cigarette in the past month in 2012 and 2013.
But 10 years ago more teens were smoking, with 8.7 percent of 12-to 17-year-olds reporting that they smoked a cigarette.
Health officials are hoping that a bill to make Hawaii the first state in the nation to raise the legal smoking age to 21 would further cut cigarette use.
But some worry that youth are getting bombarded with mixed messages about electronic cigarettes.
