LUCKNOW: Children in UP are just around nine-and-a-half years of age when they initiate cigarette smoking. Children even younger than that—about seven-year-old girls and eight-year-old boys—initiate the smoking of bidi.
An appalling figure of six years and eight months is the median age of initiation for children of urban areas into smoking of bidi. Girls are less than seven years of age when they are initiated into smokeless tobacco use.
