article_snippet: Survey results released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in June showed fewer than 16 percent of the teens smoked a cigarette in the previous month — the lowest level since the government started doing the survey in 1991, when the rate was more than 27 percent.
article_snippet: Another CDC study had already put the teen smoking rate below 16 percent, but experts tend to treat this survey's result as the official number.
article_snippet: According to Thursday's report, 90 percent of the people who have ever smoked daily first tried a cigarette before 19 years of age and nearly all others tried nearly all others before the age of 26.