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The National Authority of Tobacco and alcohol is to conduct an island-wide survey on smoking.
The survey will be conducted together with the World Health Organization and the USA Centre for disease control and prevention.
The lack of accurate statistics on smoking addiction has created issues in implementing programmes to beat the addiction
.
However
, a survey of school children addicted to smoking was
conducted in 2018. The survey concluded that
there had been a 50% decrease of children smoking from 2017 to 2018.