Nipping Growth of New Smokers

KOMPAS/REGINA RUKMORINI

A number of students of University of Muhammadiyah Magelang and staff of the Muhammadiyah Tobacco Control Center disseminate the danger of smoking of a truck driver in Magelang city, Central Java, on Friday (31/5/2019).

First-time smokers in Indonesia are becoming younger and younger, which will be a burden in our effort to improve the competitiveness of our human resources.

The 2013 Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) showed that 7.2 percent of children aged 10-18 years smoked; the figure increased to 9.1 percent in the 2018 Riskesdas.