In the first study, Dr. Prahbat Jha and colleagues sought to answer how serious the smoking problem remains today and how effective smoking cessation programs have been on health in the years after quitting.

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Committee members realized they'd spent a lot of time wrestling with the problem of teen smoking without talking to the real experts.

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Lesley Griffiths AM shared these concerns and gave her assurance that the government was addressing the problem through Assist, a smoking prevention programme which specifically targets this age group.

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Smoking out what the problem may be.

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Another problem with the Flegal study is that factors such as smoking and health status influence both body weight and mortality.

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In time, the goal is to eliminate smoking altogether as a public health problem.

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The problem is everyone understands that this bug can serve as an alibi for your smoking gun.

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The problem lay with her original application form, which she had when she had just quit smoking.

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