A survey of 1,265 high school students found that 32 percent owned promotional cigarette-related merchandice, with 22 percent having obtained those items through stores and cigarette company catalogs. Although this does not prove causality, the merchandise does appear to put younger children at greater risk of experimentation with cigarettes.
Report links promo items to youth smoking.
Sargent, J.D., Dalton, M.A., Beach, M., et al. Cigareette Promotional Items in Public Schools.