Jump to full article: Times of Malta (mt), 2008-06-10
Intro: The World Health Organisation's Health Behaviour in School-age Children shows that smoking in Malta among 15-year-olds is on the increase.
A new approach will be taken to warning youngsters away from tobacco as the number of teenage smokers in Malta continues to rise.
According to a study by the World Health Organisation, the number of 15-year-old boys who smoke has gone up to 40.2 per cent in 2006 from 37.6 per cent in 2001/2002. . . .
A ban on smoking in public places came into force in 2005 and the advertising of cigarettes has been made illegal. Now the department is working on pictorials for cigarette packets, he said.
Another initiative of the department is the Quit and Win competition that encourages smokers to stop smoking and win prizes, said Anne Buttigieg, senior occupational therapist at the department.
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