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NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) In the last decade, tobacco use has declined nationally, but the U.P. smoking rate of 23 percent remains higher than both state and national averages.

Tobacco's negative effects hit rural areas like the U.P. harder than urban ones, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A CDC study found adolescents in rural regions begin smoking earlier than those in urban areas. That's a problem, since adolescents' brains are still developing and more vulnerable to addiction.

The likelihood for addiction is greater, said Dr. Kevin Piggot, a family and preventative medicine physician. So when you talk to most adults in regards to when they began smoking, they began in their teenage years.

As cigarette smoking declined, use of other tobacco products like e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco rose.

But we do know still nicotine is present, Dr. Piggot said. Nicotine is an addictive substance and the whole issue of becoming addicted results for many people in a lifelong use of that substance.

Experts said quitters who get both medication and therapy have the best chance of success. But those resources can be hard to find in some parts of the U.P.

If we look up here where we may not have active tobacco cessation classes going on, resources to counselors that can work with somebody quitting tobacco, then that can be a limitation, said Sarah Derwin, health educator at the Marquette County Health Department.

For a link to a list of cessation resources, click here.

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Tobacco use continues in UP - UpperMichigansSource.com

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