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September 8, 2005Children as young as nine seek help to quit smoking
Dubai: Children as young as nine are seeking help to kick the habit of smoking, reflecting the rising global trend that more teenagers and children are taking up smoking, according to senior health ministry officials.
The 2002 Global Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the Ministry of Health found that 23 per cent of boys and 31.3 per cent of girls in the UAE tried smoking before the age of ten.
World Health Organisation statistics state between 80,000 and 100,000 children start smoking every day, and half of them will go on to smoke for the next 15 to 20 years.
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