Mexican youth still smoking despite anti-smoking campaigns
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The News reports that Mexico’s youth aren’t kicking the smoking habit despite ongoing efforts to curb tobacco use among minors.
Nearly one in every four Mexican adolescents smokes, according to a recent study conducted by the National Institute of Public Health, or INSP.
‘Our study shows that 23 percent of children between the ages of 13 and 15 are smokers,’ Luz Myriam Reynales Shigematsu, head of the INSP Department of Tobacco Research, told The News in an interview last week.
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Smoking in public places has been banned in Mexico City, but that didn’t stop a local private museum creating an exhibition that looked back nostalgically on the habit’s place in Mexican history and culture.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City