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• Yemeni children’s future goes up in (tobacco) smoke 

The WHO conducted a 3,000-person survey in Yemen with male and female students between the ages of 13 and 15. The study found that nearly 19 percent of the children surveyed were already smokers at this age. This means that around 570 out of 3,000 students in middle school are smoking.

Nasser is 12-year-old boy who smokes while helping people carry their bags outside a supermarket.

When asked why he smokes, Nasser was indignant. “I’m a man now and I can do whatever I want to do,” he said. Nasser said he started smoking after his father died when he started working in order to support his family.

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