More than one in three smokers who start in school will die from it. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that of the 16.6 million school-age smokers in the United States who are hooked to tobacco, five million of them will die from tobacco-related illnesses. [Have you seen that bungi jumping commercial where one of the three kids explodes? That's why...]

("The toll smoking will take on today's youth," USA Today, 11/8/96.)