* Children whose parents smoke inhale nicotine equivalent to 80 cigarettes a year
* In Canada, when cigarette prices were dramatically increased, teenage smoking fell by 60 per cent.
Children who smoke are: * three times more likely to have time off school
* two to six times more susceptible to chest infections
* permanently increasing the risk of lung cancer, even if they give up later.
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