Jump to full article: WalesOnline (uk), 2009-10-31
Author: Madeleine Brindley
Intro: TRIATHLETE Helen Jenkins has urged the Welsh Assembly Government to do more to prevent teenage girls from smoking.
Helen, the 2008 world triathlon champion, who lives in Bridgend, has become a patron of the anti-smoking charity Ash Wales.
One of her first jobs as a non-smoking role model has been to meet teenage girls from Cardiff and Caerphilly during a visit to the Senedd.
And the 25-year-old has called for the Assembly Government to take more action as it emerged that almost one in four teenage girls in Wales smokes.
Helen said: "To learn that nearly one in four 15-year-old girls are regularly smoking is staggering.
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