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Fed Study Shows Fewer Youth Smokers Results of a new nationwide survey show that cigarette smoking among teens is less common now than at any point in recent history. Use of marijuana, alcohol and most other illicit substances went down as well. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

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Fed Study Shows Fewer Youth Smokers

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Results of a new nationwide survey show that cigarette smoking among teens is less common now than at any point in recent history. Use of marijuana, alcohol and most other illicit substances went down as well. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.