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Jump to full article: Victoria (BC) Times Colonist (ca), 2008-09-04
Intro: B.C. teens are leading the way across Canada when it comes to not smoking, likely spurred on by grisly warnings on cigarette packets and a ban on lighting up indoors.
Only nine per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds in B.C. habitually lit up in 2007, compared with 12.4 per cent the year before and 15 per cent across the country, according to a Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring survey . . .
And it's not just teens who are butting out.
According to the survey, B.C. boasts the lowest overall smoking rate in the country at 14.4 per cent.
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