Source: Alfred A. Araya Jr. (CyberDyaryo)

Posted: May 02, 2006 04:30:29 PM

THE chances are high that Filipino children aged 11 to 16 have already have tried smoking cigarettes. The probability that a child has already lighted his first stick--or worse, is a full-blown smoker--is even greater when members of his family are smoking, too. And then, of course, there is peer pressure.