How widely is smoking spread among youngsters nowadays?
Unfortunately, tobacco consumption in different forms, particularly smoking cigarettes and cigars and, more recently, using snuff and chewing tobacco, remains widely spread among youth. In the US, roughly one third of all high school students, as well as about one tenth of all middle school students, either smoke cigarettes or consume smokeless tobacco products. An alarming fact is that almost 10 percent of smoking young people have tried their first cigarette under the age of 11. A whopping 80 percent of all middle-aged smokers have started using tobacco in their high school age. Smoking cigarettes remains the most popular form of tobacco consumption among American youth, especially white high school students. Students belonging to other ethnic groups, particularly Hispanics and African Americans, have a slightly higher proportion of using tobacco in the forms other than smoking cigarettes, in comparison with white students. Smoking cigars is also popular among youngsters, with more t
