Sentence examples for smoking decline from inspiring English sources

After years as an exception in the citywide smoking decline that began in 2002, Staten Island's smoking rate is finally falling, officials announced today.

In either case, it happened more than 50 years after Surgeon General Dr. Luther Terry wrote the landmark report on smoking and health that started America's smoking decline.

"We've just continued to see the demand for smoking decline, and in the last several years, it has really begun to fall off dramatically," said Erin Wallace, senior vice president at Disney World.

Parallel to the smoking decline, there has been a steady increase in the use of Swedish oral moist snuff, called snus.

School funding up in smoke: As smoking declines in California, so does funding for preschools.

74 As smoking declines, those who continue to smoke may be less influenced by a brief intervention in primary care.

With smoking declining — the Department of Agriculture estimates that Americans smoked 371 billion cigarettes in 2006, down from a high of 640 billion in 1981 — tobacco companies are developing smoke-free products.

With smoking declining, U.S. tobacco growers are turning to growing chickpeas to supply the increasing demand for hummus.

A separate government study issued today reported that illicit drug use among teenagers held steady in 2000 for the fourth straight year, while cigarette smoking declined significantly.

A study in Maryland found that while cigarette smoking declined sharply in the state between 2000 and 2010, cigar smoking among high school students rose by 11 percent, and three-fourths of those students smoked flavored cigars.

Obesity and smoking are the most important behavior-related causes of death, but obesity increased more slowly in the United States than in the other countries and smoking declined more rapidly, so neither can explain the differences in survival rates.