1. Conclusions More comprehensive interventions than school health education alone will be needed to reduce teenage smoking. 2. Although the advertising controls were attractive, the total payment was too low to raise the price of cigarettes sufficiently to reduce teen-age smoking. 3. But public-health advocates have repeatedly insisted that cigarette prices must be raised quickly and sharply to achieve the goal of reducing teen-age smoking. 4. But the group also urged spending money on early childhood care because good programs could reduce adult smoking. 5. Clinton has said he can accept legal protections as long as the overall plan significantly reduces teenage smoking. 6. Clinton called for strict marketing and advertising measures to reduce underage smoking. 7. Clinton challenged Congress to pass comprehensive bipartisan legislation to reduce teen smoking. 8. Clinton will make reducing teen smoking the centerpiece of his announcement tomorrow, a message that is being increasingly echoed on Capitol Hill. 9. Clinton has said he wants to use the meeting to spur joint efforts to draft sweeping legislation to reduce teenage smoking. 10. Clinton called for stricter marketing and advertising measures to reduce underage smoking when he offered his verdict on the tobacco settlement last September. |