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Less than 50 percent of adolescents with divorced parents had never smoked , while more than 50 percent of adolescents whose parents were not divorced had never smoked ( see Table 2 ) . Most smokers say they would like to stop smoking , and more than half try to quit each year , but only a small percentage succeed . The engine , panting and puffing out black smoke , drags more than twenty vans after it . More than one half of these smokers report wanting to stop smoking , and more than one half of them have tried to stop smoking in the last year . In 2001 the Ministry of Health and Welfare reported another global record — 42 % of male high-school students smoke , far more than in the US ( 28 % ) or Japan ( 26 % ) . Fewer Nova Scotians are smoking , yet more than half of us say we are overweight .