- Youth
- Among young teens (aged 13 to 15, about one in five smokes worldwide
- Between 80,000 and 100,000 children Worldwide starts smoking every day roughly half of whom live in asia.
- Evidence shows that around 50% of those who starts smoking in adolescent years go on to smoke for 15 to 20 years.
- Peer-reviewed studies show teenagers are heavily influenced by tobacco advertising.
- About a quarteer of youth alive in the wester pacific Region will die form smoking.
- Every eight seconds, someone dies form tobacco use.
- Smoking related-diseases kill onje in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths. By 2030, if current trends continue, smoking will kill one in six people.
News 03.09.07
- Youth
- Among young teens (aged 13 to 15, about one in five smokes worldwide
- Between 80,000 and 100,000 children Worldwide starts smoking every day roughly half of whom live in asia.
