Teenage girl have surpassed young boys in smoking rates
Smoking rates doubles among teenage Girl in India, while adult women's smoking rates has decreased report released by health ministry tobacco control report One of the reasons that teenage girls are smoking more is that they are maturing fast and, like boys, are taking to cigarettes to get rid of their angst and appear cool. (Representational image/File) As per the union Health ministry's latest report, the number of teenage who smokes has gone up more than two-fold decade. It is a worrying trend, with adverse health effects like cardiovascular and reproductive diseases There has been an increase in smoking among adolescents over a decade but the increase has been sharpest for girls, according to the report. Smoking in girls went up by 3.8 percentage points between 2009 and 2019, increasing to 6.2 per cent. Comparatively, smoking among boys increased by 2.3 percentage points. This comes at a time when there was a decline in smoking among adults, reducing by 2.2 percentage po...