Report fewer smokers as early as age 10

Aguascalientes.- Now, it begins with the harmful habit of smoking from an early age, since there are children less than 12, 11 and even 10 years old who are already smokers, or even inveterate in many cases, smoking an average of 5.6 cigarettes per day.

At least 4.9% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 are smokers and the relationship is almost similar for men and women. women in this age group, but this percentage increases if it is added to occasional smokers, who make up 2.8% of the country's teens.

According to the results of the National Survey on the Use of Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco 2016-2017, smoking is one of the fastest growing addictions in the country and mainly among minors and youth, since the records indicate that 6.7% of men and 4.9% of women between 12 and 17 years, they declared to have fum In the last month

0.5% teenagers in the country smoke daily and 4.4% do so occasionally, but the most disturbing is the fact that 3.7% of teenagers aged 12 to 17 years old smokers already have problems with nicotine addiction.

The results of the survey indicate that 6.4% of smokers in the country do so daily, 11.1% smoke occasionally and 15.4% are former smokers. – smokers a month or more of abstinence

Adult smokers smoke an average of 7.4 cigars a day, while teens with the same problem smoke an average of 5.6 cigarettes.

Of the country's smokers, about 2 million of them have a nicotine addiction, accounting for 10.8% of these women and 12.9% of men, while one just over half of smokers reported trying to quit smoking last year and 24.4% of smokers acu They gave the medical consultation in the last 12 months recommendations to stop smoking smoking.