Smoking by adolescents: Three years later, there's even larger revenue but little for prevention

Results of a study suggest a growing inequity exists in Australia in the spending on anti-smoking activities vs revenues from cigarette sales to minors. The research was to determine whether changes in government revenue from sale of cigarettes to minors and the proportion of the revenue spent in an effort to prevent adolescents from taking up the habit, 1990-93. One who starts smoking at 14 or before is five times as likely to die of lung cancer as one who starts at 24 or later and 15 times as likely to die of lung cancer as never-smokers.