Misleading and sensationalist propaganda

I would like to draw your attention to the sample size. 1000 High School students in an ONLINE survey. Not sure about you but my high school participated in national surveys, and there were well over 1000 students in my high school alone. This entire article and the people supporting it reek of statistical manipulation to fulfill an agenda.

Agreed, this article is very misleading, and i really do not know the last time i saw tobacco in an ad or on tv.

mmm....and when you lump alcohol, tobacco, and drugs into one all-inclusive group called "drug abuse", then it could easily top the list of threats to public health

This is a news article reporting on the fact that the findings from the survey were released, and in general what they were, according to the sources.

The most I could find in the sources were that the researchers used online surveys filled out by 1,000 high school students, and 1,000 parents of high school students, and 500 educators, and information from 5 focus groups, and reviews of 2,000 scientific articles and reports.

Granted this is a very vague description of how they gathered and analyzed the data, but it is only one study. It will be evaluated by other researchers who hopefully will gather more data to prove or disprove the findings of this particular study.