Source: This is Plymouth (Evening Herald News) (uk)
Date: 2010-02-15

ONE in five Plymouth children regularly smoke by the age of 16,
according to a survey of the city\'s young people.

The figures have been released to back a national drive to slash
the country\'s smoking rates in half - from 21 to 10 per cent by
2020.

The Government published its strategy \'A Smokefree Future\' this
month.

According to the latest NHS figures, about 27 per cent of adults
in Plymouth smoke, although the proportion is much higher in more
deprived areas, such as Devonport at 42 per cent.