While rates of cigarette smoking among teens have dropped drastically during the past several decades, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office says that one out of every four high school seniors still smoke. Moreover, they’re unlikely to kick the habit. Of those smokers, three out of four will continue to smoke into adulthood. “The addictive power of nicotine makes tobacco use much more than a passing phase for most teens,” says Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin. “Today, more than 600,000 middle school students and 3 million high school students smoke. We don’t want our children to start something now that they won’t be able to change later in life.” (ABC News)