Teenage Smoking At the age of ten, Sean Marsee began smoking cigarettes. Two years later, he was persuaded to give up by a caring uncle. A few weeks after quitting, he received a free sample of smokeless tobacco at a rodeo. Once again, Sean Marsee was addicted to tobacco. At 16 he had developed lip cancer. At 18, surgery removed half his face. By the age of 19, Sean Marsee was dead. A look at the tobacco industry will tell you that teenage smoking is going down. And it is. If you go back to 1975, 27% of high school seniors smoked daily compared with 19% in 1993. Smoking among teen’s fell by about a third during the 1970’s, but during the past decade has neither rise