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Breakfast stubbed out: 1.2m children start their school day with a cigarette or junk food  

Jump to full article: The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk), 2009-09-02
Author: Laura Clark

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More than 1.2million children begin the day by eating junk food or smoking cigarettes instead of having a proper breakfast, a survey shows.

One in four seven to 14-year-olds snacks on crisps, chocolate or biscuits before going to school while one 14-year-old in 30 just has a cigarette. . . .

The report, published by Kellogg's, will raise fears that healthier eating in school is being undermined by the purchase of fatty and sugary snacks on the school run.

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