1.   But the group also urged spending money on early childhood care because good programs could reduce adult smoking.

2.   Despite enormous propaganda by the tobacco companies, adult smoking has declined.

3.   Gregory Connolly, director of the tobacco control program, said Massachusetts is the first state to show a decline in both youth and adult smoking.

4.   Glantz says the switch is at least partly to blame for a slowing in the decline of adult smoking and a rise in teen-age smoking in California.

5.   The high level of smoking on screen runs counter to the realities of smoking in western society, where adult smoking is generally in decline, they said.

6.   They specifically avoid any new restrictions on adult smoking, administration officials said.

7.   Clinton said adult smoking will remain legal but argued that cigarette smoking among youth is a critical national health risk.

8.   Clinton added that for more than a decade, even as adult smoking was dropping, smoking among high school seniors did not fall.

9.   Clinton said adult smoking will not be regulated.

10.   This figure mirrored the greater prevalence of adult smoking in the lower income brackets.