These are alarming statistics that, as with many health and social issues, support earlier intervention to prevent smoking rather than relying on later cessation work. Although school is the obvious place to start, formal education can't work alone. For some, if their teacher tells them not to smoke, it's probably the first thing they'll want to do.
Children are more likely to smoke if family members do, so encouraging adults not to smoke around children needs to be a core element of any campaign. Smoke Free Merseyside Passive Smoking and Children Campaign's "If you can't cut it out, put it out when the kids are about", trains health professionals to address this issue and uses a strong media campaign to raise awareness of the effects of passive smoking on children.
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