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• Greek teens are still lighting up 

Plans to bring in stricter restrictions on selling tobacco to children appear to be timely, as figures released yesterday show that around a quarter of Greek teenagers smoke, despite a slight drop over the last 20 years.

The figures compiled by the University Research Institute for Mental Health show that 38.4 percent of boys aged between 13 and 18 smoked in 1984 but by 2003 this percentage had dropped to 25.4.

There has also been a reduction in the number of girls of the same age group who smoke, but the drop has been much less.

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