Smoking an

IT ONLY requires smoking three or four cigarettes
during adolescence to ensure that the individual will
go on to become a regular smoker. Moreover, 85

per cent of adolescents who try smoking become ad-

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Research shows that
young people in junior high
school present the greatest
likelihood of being influenc-
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growth in society is strong.

Often they are confused
about their identity and are

- unskilled in a society fraught
with pressure. Medical
research states that the most

pupils than do teachers who
smoke.

Peer pressure also
becomes important as
children grow. Children who
smoke tend to have smoking
friends and those that smoke
openly are more likely to con-
tinue the habit than closet
smokers.

Advertising,

too, in-

_ parental or other adult rules.

. successful -attempts to

‘eighth grade.

‘the reason that in families
‘where one or both parents
-smoke, a child is more likely
.to begin smoking. .- - ‘

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Jead children to start smok-
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Role models play an im-
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of childrens’ lives. This is

. Older siblings also play a
American research
shows that 43 per cent of.
children with older brothers

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Since 1966, smoking
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teenaged girls.

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