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Jump to full article: Jamaica Star (jm), 2007-12-12
Intro: Some 19 per cent of students between the ages of 13 and 17 who participated in the Global Tobacco Youth Survey (GTYS) in 2006 have indicated their intention to continue smoking.
"What this study found was that almost one-third of students who confessed to having parents who smoke indicated that they intend to smoke in the future while 16 per cent of students whose parents did not smoke say they intended to smoke in the future. So there is a correlation, we feel, between parents who smoke and the projected use of the cigarette in our adolescent population that we studied," revealed Ellen Campbell-Grizzle of the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) at a forum last Thursday.
Dr. Campbell-Grizzle was giving a presentation on 'Tobacco: Impact on Jamaica's Youth' at the NCDA-organised forum at the Eden Gardens Hotel.
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