Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (ph)
Date: 2010-02-10
Author:  Desiree Caluza, Inquirer Northern Luzon

Lung cancer victims are getting younger because of smoking and
unhealthy lifestyles early in their lives, health officials here
said.

Dr. Donna Tubera, head of the city epidemiology and surveillance
unit, said smoking at an early age is a key reason people are
getting lung cancer early.

She said the cold weather in this city could be one of the
reasons for early smoking.

She said, however, that teenagers are lured into smoking mainly
because of peer pressure.

"In our study, we found out that [some] smokers were high school
students who started smoking because of peer pressure," she
said.

She said smokers who are diagnosed with lung cancer are usually
in their 40s and 50s.