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EDITOR,--The prevalence of regular smoking among 11-15 year olds is alarmingly high and has not decreased much since 1982, when national surveys began.1 The Health of the Nation target for England--to reduce regular smoking in this age group from 8% in 1988 to 6% in 1994--has not been met. In 1992, 10% in this age group smoked regularly.2 But has the wrong target been set? View this table: Proportions of 11-15 year old respondents in successive cross sectional surveys who had never …
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Charlton et al. (1988) studied this question.
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