Jump to full article: Jakarta Post (id), 2008-05-13
Intro: The three schoolgirls are just a small part of the growing number of youths addicted to cigarettes.
The 2006 World Health Organization's Global Tobacco Youth Survey showed 68.1 percent of junior high school students in Jakarta could easily buy cigarettes without being asked to prove they were older than 17.
It also showed by the age of 13 to 15, at least 37.3 percent of children had tried smoking.
Seto Mulyadi of the National Commission for Children said these children were also known as premature smokers.
He said students were prone to start smoking because of the strong advertising campaigns conducted by cigarette companies.
He also said public service announcements had gradually lost their grip in sculpturing youth behavior today.
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