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• Early Interventions Can Cut Teen Pregnancy Rates Date: Nov 13, 2009

  Early intervention and youth development programs can reduce the risk of teenage pregnancy, but they do not tackle larger-scale societal and family influences on early parenthood, according to a study published Nov. 12 in BMJ.

• Smoking Rate Increases Slightly in United States Date: Nov 13, 2009

  The number of Americans who smoke increased slightly from 2007 to 2008, and the figure has hardly changed at all in the past five years, according to a report in the Nov. 13 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.