7 Children who live with parents or siblings who smoke are up to 3 times more likely to become smokers themselves than children of non-smoking households. 8 It is estimated that, each year, at least 23,000 young people in England and Wales start smoking by the age of 15 as a result of exposure to smoking in the home.
Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, or boba-milk tea) (Traditional Chinese: çç å¥¶è¶, Simplified Chinese: çç å¥¶è¶) is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Taichung in the 1980s.
Even so, people are obsessed with the drink that features a base made from tea, fruit, coffee or milk and chewy pearls at the bottom of the cup. 1  Bubble tea can be found nationwide, from mall food courts to the drink menus of high-end restaurants But its origins are in Taiwan. And while the drink is wildly popular, bubble tea â or boba tea as it is also frequently called â still remains a bit of a mystery. The drink has a number of monikers, including pearl milk tea and tapioca tea, but it's most commonly referred to as bubble tea or milk tea. The term bubble tea is actually a reference to the milk froth that forms when the drink is shaken, not the chewy pearls in the drink that resemble bubbles, Quartz noted. The name boba, on the other hand, originates from a Taiwanese slang term for the pearls.