How children around the world are exposed to cigarette advertising

Schoolchildren around the world are being exposed on a daily basis to cigarette advertising and promotions by a tobacco industry that needs to recruit the young to maintain its vast profits.

A major investigation in more than 22 countries across four continents by campaigners and experts has found cigarettes on sale close to school gates and advertising which normalises smoking. Stalls and shops full of vibrantly colourful branding sell single cigarettes at pocket money prices alongside sweets and candies.

Marlboro cigarettes made by Philip Morris and British American Tobacco brands such as Pall Mall, Kent, Dunhill and Lucky Strike were being sold and promoted within 300 metres (1,000ft) or closer to schools in nearly all the countries researchers examined in a series of studies.

Brands made by Japan Tobacco and Imperial were seen near schools in a smaller number.

Source: theguardian