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Author: Desiree Hunter * The Associated Press
Intro: More of Alabama's high school students are seeing the light: fewer of them are lighting up.
The Alabama Department of Public Health released some of the data from its 2008 Youth Tobacco Survey on Wednesday, showing a 17.5 percent decrease in teen smoking compared with 2006.
The survey was given in 43 public high schools earlier in the year, and the results are based on a sampling of nearly 1,400 students who turned in usable questionnaires.
Youth Tobacco Prevention and Cessation director Barry Riddle said that it's hard to pinpoint exactly what led to the drop from nearly 27 percent in 2006 to about 22.1 percent in 2008, but that programs offered by the department certainly helped.
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