More comprehensive interventions than school health education alone will be needed to reduce teenage smoking.
Restrictions on advertising and sports sponsorship can have an immediate impact on rates of teenage smoking.
The "Truth" ads, aimed at reducing and preventing teenage smoking, have received numerous awards.
"Mr. Robilio, are you aware of efforts by the tobacco industry to curb teenage smoking?"
While teenage smoking has dropped, teenage drinking is on the rise.
They had agreed to pay $246 billion to states to fight teenage smoking and help pay for the ills of injured smokers.
Even teenage smoking is glamorized as he pays homage to the most preventable cause of death in society today.
All schools in the area have been contacted and are developing strategies to deal with teenage smoking.
Government agencies have also produced such videos for years, often on subjects like teenage smoking and the dangers of using steroids.
Under the new policy, a film's rating will consider all tobacco use, rather than just teenage smoking, as in the past.