Finally, support for policy research on tobacco use by children and adolescents should be increased. Smoking trends among different ethnic groups should be studied more closely. Researchers need to know, for example, why tobacco use among African-American youngsters has declined and if recent data presage an upward trend in smoking among all teens as a group. Funding for the study was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Metropolitan Life, American Heart Association, Tobacco- Related Disease Research Program of California, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Indian Health Service, W.K. Kellogg Endowment Fund, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Institute of Medicine Permission is granted to reproduce this report brief in its entirety, with no additions or alterations.
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