Number of Irish youngsters smoking has decreased
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Health, School Age Kids
Irish children are less likely to smoke or drink alcohol than they were in the late 1990s.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study found 12% of Irish children were smoking in 2010 compare to 21% in 1998. Of this 12%, almost half had started by the age of 13 or younger, down 11% on previous years.
28% of youngsters reported being drunk, down 1% from 1998 figures, while 8% admitted using cannabis compared with 10% in the nineties.
What do you think? Are you surprised by the figures? Have your children tried any of the above?
