Study: Restaurant tobacco bans influence teen smoking
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_he_me/teen_smoking_restaurants"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080505/capt.nyol91105052014.teen_smoking_restaurants_nyol911.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=GrX0x6fC9s8Ghf7j7Md5AA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A man has a cigarette at the bar of a restaurant in Baltimore in this January file photo. A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less likely to become regular smokers than those in communities with no bans or weak ones, the researchers reported in the May issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.</p><br clear="all"/>

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