General Article More than 200,000 UK children start smoking every year

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This means that nearly 570 children are lighting up and becoming smokers for the first time every day.

The new Cancer Research UK figures show this number has jumped by an extra 50,000 from the previous year, when 157,000 started smoking.

Analysis of the data showed that the 2010 figure was unu...

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