Nearly a third of children in India want to smoke when they grow up, study finds

More than two thirds of young children from six low and middle income countries can identify at least one brand of cigarette correctly from the logo, a study has found.1

For the study researchers asked 2423 children aged 5 and 6 from six countries (India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, the Russian Federation, and China) about cigarette brands and logos, their exposure to tobacco advertising, and their desire to smoke in the future. The countries were …