How about jammin' n rockin' with the youth – for an MP personnel? Now that's something!
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TO ENCOURAGE the youth to adopt a smoke-free lifestyle, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) held a three-day event over the weekend, in line with World No Tobacco Day.
Activities to demonstrate how a smoke-free lifestyle can be hip and cool included a freestyle football demonstration, hip hop dance and guitar hero competitions.
To conclude the event, HPB staged a rock concert titled "Rockin' without Smokin'" at Plaza Singapura Open Plaza yesterday.
According to the National Health Surveillance Survey in 2007, the average age at which both male and female smokers started experimenting with cigarettes was 16 years.
A survey last year by the HPB also showed that 9 per cent of young people aged13 to 16 smoked and nearly one in five teenagers in Singapore thought that smoking is not harmful.
Asked whether anti-smoking campaigns are an effective way to bring down the figures, Deputy Director of the HPB's Youth Health Division V Prema said: "Campaigns are just one form of reaching out to the youth. We've got other measures (such as) peer-led approaches, so there are different ways of going out to them."
The Student Health Survey 2006 found that peer influence is a significant factor for smokers, with 95 per cent of youth smokers having close friends who smoked.
From TODAYOnline.com –Singapore News, Monday, 01-Jun-2009; see the source article here.
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