WFH - Smoking introduction Cigarette smoking kills more than 120,000 people in Britain every year. Smoking is highly addictive and many of those who take up smoking regularly carry on until the day they die even though they have tried to stop many times.
Most smokers take up smoking in their school years.
This places schools in the front line of the battle to reduce the massive toll of death and illness caused by this addiction. Despite the efforts that have gone into combating teenage smoking over the past five years, if anything, it has increased. A recent survey revealed that more than one in eight English school children between the ages of 11 and 15 smokes regularly. Fortunately, smoking is quite rare among primary school pupils, but the health effects of starting smoking at this young age are particularly severe.