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Youth Smoking Rates, Maine, 1995-Present
1. Youth Smoking Prevalence in Maine
1995-2009
45.0%
39.2%
40.0% 37.8% Fund for a
Healthy
Maine
35.0% established
Cigarette Smoking Rate Among Youth, %
30.0%
Maine
increases 24.8% Maine
25.0% tobacco tax increases
by $.37 20.5%
tobacco tax
by $1.00
20.0% 18.1%
16.2%
14.0%
15.0% Maine
increases
tobacco tax
10.0%
by $.26
Youth smoking rates
begin to increase
5.0% for the first time in
more than 10 years.
0.0%
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Year
Prepared by the Maine Public Health Association, January 2011 Source: Youth Behavioral Risk Surveillance System, 2009