46. Kamal, M.S., Blum, M., Robert, J. The Prevalence of Smoking Among Preparatory and Secondary School Children in the Ramallah Area. A paper presented to the WHO health service research workshop, 1987.

A survey of school children in three villages near Ramallah studied smoking prevalence by age in school children. Seven hundred and eighty-three school children were surveyed. The prevalence of smoking among the surveyed children is presented in the table below

Prevalence	Age 13Yrs	Age 14Yrs	Age 15Yrs	Age 16Yrs	Age 17Yrs
Males	28	37	44	49	45
Females	4	5	13	24	19

The average age at which children started smoking was 12 years.