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As national smoking rates rise, NY's drops
While national rates for cigarette smoking have risen slightly, New York has shown a decrease in smokers, which experts attribute to the state's high cigarette tax and aggressive anti-smoking laws and programs.
Nationally, about 20.6 percent of adults were smokers in 2008, up from 19.8 percent in 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
Even so, the trend...
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