underage smoking
Minors lighting cigarettes
Underage smoking is tobacco use by minors—people below the legal age for purchasing cigarettes, typically 18 or 21 depending on jurisdiction.
The phrase appears in public health contexts, legal discussions, and anti-tobacco campaigns: The new regulations aim to reduce underage smoking.
Despite restrictions, underage smoking remains a persistent concern because nicotine addiction often begins in adolescence.
- teenagerPerson aged thirteen-nineteen
- cigarettesPaper-wrapped tobacco for smoking
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- nicotineAddictive tobacco alkaloid
- peer pressureInfluence from one's equals
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- smokingcigarette, cigar, pipe, lighter, ashtray
- juvenile crimetruancy, vandalism, shoplifting, joyriding, curfew violation
- status offensestruancy, curfew violation, incorrigibility, breaking curfew, minor in possession