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Schools and parents should also place more emphasis on guiding and teaching youths, to help them develop correct values and health awareness, Yang Jie added

Taken together, we uncovered the putative time-varying population-level factors of age, period, and cohort that influenced the decrease in the prevalence of current smoking among American adults over the last nearly fifty years

However, it is likely that part of the association between vaping and smoking among youth is due to smoking leading to vaping

Ex-smokers, with the exception of individuals who abstained from smoking for 15 years, had more visceral adiposity, a larger ratio of visceral to subcutaneous adipose tissue and a higher incidence of elevated plasma triglyceride levels, hyperglycaemia and the metabolic syndrome than nonsmokers

Sources: The California State Auditors analysis of Joint Legislative Audit Committee audit request 2015-119 and information and documentation identified in the table column titled Method

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