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Health: Black Teens Less Likely to Smoke Than Whites; Celebrities Stand Up to Diabetes
November 10th, 2008
Black teens are less likely to smoke than Whites. During their teen years, Blacks are much less likely to smoke than Whites, a new study says. However, most of this advantage disappears by mid-adulthood, researchers say. There is a puzzle here in that usually the health disadvantages in African Americans show up early in life and get worse as they get older,” says Fred Pampel, Ph.D., a sociology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “For cigarette-smoking, African Americans tend to act in a more healthy way during their teens, but that advantage goes away by middle age.” The study appears in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Pampel used data from two surveys to look at groups of White and Black teens to see how their cigarette-smoking patterns changed as they aged. “Resources, such as higher income, more education, better access to medical care and greater use of nicotine replacement products, help Whites quit at a faster rate,” Pampel said. But C. Tracy Orleans, Ph.D., of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said the study did not factor in possible socio-demographic differences in exposure to higher tobacco prices and taxes, which “deter youth onset and promote quitting, especially among low-income smokers, and protection by worksite and comprehensive smoke-free airs laws, which affect adult cessation more than youth initiation.”
Celebrities stand up to diabetes. Several celebrities are talking about their battles with diabetes during National Diabetes Month. To see what they have to say, go to BET.com/Body & Soul.
WHERE THE ..”WEED AT”!!!..SOME KIDS PICK IT UP BEFORE CIGS
^^^^^As it’s so obvious you do^^^^^^
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I BET YOU GOT A..” BIG FAT ASS”..”MONIQUE”.. WITH LIPS TO MATCH!!!…MAKES ME WANT TO LIGHT UP A BLUNT AND MAKE IT JIGGLE.
ARE YOU A REAL”.. BLACK PANTHER”.. OR ONE OF THEM ..”FAKE ASS WANNABE BLACK PANTHER NEGROS”..WITH AN OUT DATED HAT THAT STANDS ON A CORNER WITH SOME PAPERS TO HAND OUT!
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fake lynn —-
first you need to learn some history, and civcs.
If all black panthers did was stood on the corner with papers, then the goverment would’nt have been threaten by them. Black Panther Party is what you should research. One (1) goal of the Black Panther Party was political empowerment, see Bobby Rush. So there is a lot for you to learn beside what ya retarded hooded daddy yelled at you when he was drunk.
As for who I am, I dont need to explain who I am to you, unless you ready to unlearn ya trash and be taught the truth. But you should notice the “NEW” in front of black panther… spin ya brain on what “new” means in relation to the latter.
LOL @ monique
applaud @ New Black Panther
its a shame how ignorant some people can be in 2009 =/
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