The BBC highlight a scheme being run in County Durham which is atempting to reduce the number of children smoking:
Children as young as 12 are to be given nicotine patches by health workers in an effort to help them stop smoking.Pupils at all six secondary schools in Derwentside, County Durham, will be offered nicotine replacement therapy.
Derwentside Primary Care Trust and Sure Start Stanley have joined forces with school nurses to create the programme to cut the number of children smoking.
A pilot programme at a nearby school last year resulted in about half the small sample of children quitting.
The Guardian have also run the same story.
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