At least the headline on this article is more honest.  Read other news outlet headlines and you find:  "Youth Smoking Falls as Taxes  [rise]"  It falsely promotes the idea that the number of smokers have fallen rather than the number of cigarettes smoked by smokers.  And regardless of the more honest headline, the purveyors of this report and the like-minded special interests that are touting it are in fact pulling a fast one.  This is what you call spin.  The impression they want to leave, in order to claim "more success," is that less youth (if you want to count 18 to 25 yr olds as youths) are smoking.  Rather, all this report provides is the number of cigarettes smoked.  And you're hard pressed to find a base number other than a "combined" 2004-2010 number of survey respondents. What is the yearly total number of smokers for comparison? Why is that information omitted? What's the point of telling us how many cigarettes are smoked without knowing how many are smoking them?  According to the anti-smoker activists "reduction in smoking," means NO smoking.  But what we get -- and what's being boasted -- is spin.  This is what their "war on smoking" is reduced to.  Liars never prosper.