With the prevalence of anti-smoking messages, kids today are hip to the dangers associated with smoking and may worry if their parents smoke. To help such kids, the Centre for Addiction and Mental ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children born to parents with a history of cigarette smoking are more likely to light up than kids of people who never smoked, according to a new U.S. study. Despite ...

Many parents think smoking in or around the home mostly affects breathing or causes coughs. But new research by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that smoking harms children in deeper and more ...

When we think of smoking, the image that comes to our mind is of a person holding a cigarette. But what if we told you children who have never touched a cigarette are inhaling the equivalent of up to ...

Wilbur Elementary fifth grader Natalya Dixon watched as a Delaware driver blew out a plume of smoke. "How does he hold all that in without gagging or throwing up?" she asked her parents. "Just the ...

A father's exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk of COPD—a risk that is heightened further if they are childhood passive ...

LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Social media ranks alongside smoking as a danger to children, senior British doctors said on Tuesday, as they urged lawmakers ‌to tackle the harm that they say excessive ...

A new study shows that children who spend time on social media are more likely to vape and smoke cigarettes than their peers. Analyzing data from 10,808 people aged 10 to 25 in the UK, a research team ...

Experimenting with smoking represents a form of risk-taking for some teens while it can serve as the onset of long-term chronic cigarette smoking for others. Deciding which group a given teenager is a ...

Children exposed to secondhand vaping had 83.6% lower nicotine absorption than the children exposed to secondhand tobacco smoking. Vaping rather than smoking tobacco indoors substantially reduces ...

Newsflash: Kids don't like being preached to - especially when it's done hypocritically A recent study assessed the impact parents have over the decisions their teenagers make concerning whether or ...