the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
(NLSY79) to track the smoking and wealth of US young baby
boomers. Young baby boomers are individuals born between
1957 and 1964, at the tail end of the population explosion
that started in the late 1940s. Young baby boomers are of
particular importance in understanding US smoking patterns
because they were the first generation to grow up clearly
being warned of tobacco's dangers before ever trying the
product.