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Much of the
progress in reducing smoking prevalence among girls in the 1970s and 1980s
was lost with the increase in prevalence in the 1990s: current smoking among
high school senior girls was the same in 2000 as in 1988. Although smoking
prevalence was higher among high school senior girls than among high school
senior boys in the 1970s and early 1980s, prevalence has been comparable
since the mid-1980s. Smoking declined substantially
among black girls from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s; the decline
among white girls for this same period was small.
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