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The trend is also reflected in pop culture

Its director Simon Clark said: "Smoking rates among young teenagers were falling long before the display ban so it's hardly surprising that children's susceptibility to smoking continued to fall during and after the implementation of the ban because that was the long-term trend." He added: "We support reasonable measures that discourage children from smoking but hiding a legal consumer product infantilises everyone and sets an unwelcome precedent for other potentially harmful products." More on this story Published1 July 2017 Published6 April 2015 Published12 December 2012 Published6 April 2015

Science backs this up too

20 Nicotine operates by activating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, which stimulate several signaling pathways that exacerbate tumorigenic effects, such as MEK/ERK and Sox2 via Yap1-E2F1 axis in non-small cell lung cancers

In Morocco, youth who are exposed to second-hand smoke in enclosed public place are 2.3 times more likely to become cigarette smokers