PETALING JAYA: A 10-year-old in uniform takes a drag on his cigarette and the nicotine hits. For every five boys, there is one just like him, reveals the country’s first-of-its-kind study by the Health Ministry.
The habit is easy to feed, especially when cigarettes are blatantly being sold to students with little or no enforcement against the irresponsible sellers.
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