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Jump to full article: The Weekly Trust and Daily Trust (ng), 2008-04-30
Intro: The World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday in Abuja raised alarm over the growing number of youths hooked on to tobacco.
"More than 150 million adolescents use tobacco and 80 percent of these started before the age of 18," said Dr Elizabeth Mason, WHO Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development.
Mason spoke at an international conference on investing in young people.
"If the pattern of tobacco use seen today continues, a lifetime of tobacco use would result in the death of 250 million people alive today, most of them in developing countries,'' she said.
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