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IJE Advance Access originally published online on June 24, 2004
International Journal of Epidemiology 2004 33(5):1110-1111; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh254
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IJE vol.33 no.5 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Adolescent smoking, school leavers, youth smoking prevention and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

TH Lam

Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. E-mail: hrmrlth@hkucc.hku.hk

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The study on smoking among adolescents in China by Yang et al.1 is one of the largest youth smoking surveys in the world. The survey included 24 000 youths aged 11–20 in 24 different urban and rural regions and covered youths in school and school leavers in rural areas. Note that the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) only includes a narrow age band of 13–15 years and excludes out-of-school youths.2 The latter are particularly important for developing countries and rural areas as the proportion of young school leavers can be very high (about 40% among youths aged 15–19 years in this study). There is a lack of smoking data on . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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