31.  The federal statistics agency survey reinforced several theories about why kids smoke.

32.  The hospitals now serve the most seriously ill patients, and federal statistics suggest that states spend about half their mental health care budgets to operate them.

33.  The number of Missouri nursing homes cited for problems that endangered residents more than quadrupled in the last year, new federal statistics show.

34.  The rate of obesity in this country has begun to increase sharply in the last five years, federal statistics show.

35.  The researchers reached their conclusions after reviewing federal statistics on road deaths.

36.  There are no current federal statistics on minority ownership of cable television properties.

37.  Yesterday, the federal statistics office reported that consumer prices were unchanged last month.

38.  But after the city-states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, it has the highest rate of violent crime, according to federal statistics.

39.  Federal statistics show guns are in about half of all U.S. households.

40.  Federal statistics show that unwanted babies are turning up dead at an increasing and alarming rate.