China Scene: South

Survey finds almost half of all students smoke

A recent survey found that 46.1 percent of students have tried smoking with 24 percent having their first cigarette before the age of 13 in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The survey, conducted by the region's Centre of Disease Prevention and Control, interviewed 25,766 local junior and senior high school and university students in Nanning, Hezhou, Qinzhou, Hechi, Guilin and Liuzhou last month.