Around the world, teenage girls are smoking cigarettes at about the same rate as boys, Bloomberg News reported May 25.

A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that about 1 in 5 youths ages 13-15 said they smoked or used other types of tobacco. Use rates were about the same for males and females, a troubling trend since past reports have shown that adult men smoked more than women.

The CDC conducted the Global Youth Tobacco Survey along with the World Health Organization and the Canadian Public Health Association. The study included almost 750,000 students in 132 countries and the Gaza Strip/West Bank.