Jeremy Laurance: How smoking takes its toll on the young
Shocking new evidence has convinced the Government to crack down on sale of tobacco to teenagers
Published: 04 December 2005
Virtually every smoker has their first cigarette as a teenager. By the age of 20 more than one in four young men and women are regularly puffing away.
It ought to make sense to target preventing smoking at the age when it starts - to nip the habit in the bud. Unfortunately, the evidence does not bear this out. Studies across the world have shown that restricting young people's access to cigarettes has little effect on consumption, as a review of research published in the US journal Pediatrics in 2001 confirmed.
Article Length: 499 words (approx.)
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