School kids taking to smoking

 more students in the age group 10-14 are taking to smoking and girls are increasingly getting hooked to the habit, said an NGO Thursday two days before a ban on smoking in public places completes two years.

many students across schools (public and private) from Class 6-8 have taken up smoking and chewing tobacco and the male-female ratio is marginal.

"We did a group-randomised tobacco intervention trial wherein 14.7 percent of girls and 21.1 percent of boys reported ever-use of tobacco.