(Source: Statista) Teenage Smokers in Europe Statistics Tobacco Smoking In the European Union, the prevalence of smoking among individuals aged 15-24 varied across countries and between genders
Hagai Levine from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel is the senior and corresponding author of the study paper
Several toxic chemicals present in cigarettes, such as nicotine, formaldehyde, ammonia, carbon monoxide, benzopyrenes, tar, acetone, hydroxyquinone, cadmium, and nitrogen oxides, have pro-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects
Adolescents believed the warnings would help smokers quit and prevent youth from starting smoking
However, experts say their long-term health effects remain poorly understood