Health and Fitness

The Longer Parents Smoke, the More Likely Their Teens Are to Start Smoking

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 12, 2014. The more time a child is exposed to a parent addicted to smoking, the more likely the youth will take up cigarettes and become a heavy smoker. A new study by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in the June 2014 Pediatrics, “Parental Smoking Exposure and Adolescent Smoking Trajectories,” published online May 12, compared different patterns of parental smoking and how that impacts their children’s smoking initiation, concluding…

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