Children are being poisoned by the smoking addiction

Every day there are 67 children, lot of 2 class, started smoking in London, and has 74000 youth under the age of 16 in Birmingham, smoking.

Experts using survey data from more than 207,000 people smoke to bring out an estimated 6500 new kids smoking is set between the years 2010 and 2011. The data are taken from the survey of high school students in the uk within 7-10 years (mainly focused on children from 11 to 15 years) due to the information centre for health and social care implementation.

According to experts from the Centre for cancer research uk and Imperial College London then: "smoking is one of the largest cause of mortality that can prevent the world over".

"The current data would help raise awareness of smoking in children and focus the attention of the public opinion of the need to protect children."

For professionals or people who start smoking before the age of 15 had a higher lung cancer risk.

The team also pointed out "young people susceptible to persuasion by the ads and images of smoking in movies". Need to build up the law to combat the efforts of the tobacco industry. This requires the political will of the legislators in both the national and local level. "

Dr. Penny Woods, ceo of lung Protection Fund in the uk, said: "Although the total number of children in the class 20-smoking every day is something shocking. But sadly, this is no surprise. "

"It's even more sad when think that, with the number of children smoking today, half of them are likely to die as a result of the smoking habit."

She added: "The tobacco manufacturers continue to use expensive packaging to attract new young smokers."

"This study is a timely reminder of the scale of the problem. Because young 570 under 16 start smoking every day is too much. Life will wither by addiction to smoking. Maybe it will kill up to half of children addicted to drugs if they continue smoking "

"We must do everything possible to reduce the rate of smoking".=

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