Smoking Statistics

• Girls are more likely than boys to smoke after the age of 14. 
• At the age of 13, boys smoke twice as much as girls.
• Around 37% of 16-year-olds smoke. 
• At the age of twelve, 10% of all boys smoke, whereas only 5% of girls do so.
• 10-year-olds are very unlikely to be smokers- less than 7%- but the numbers grow steadily with their increasing age.