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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has sparked a major international debate on children’s online safety after saying she would rather see young children smoke than use social media without adult ...

Children of smoking mothers are more likely to have more motor control problems, perception impairments, attention disabilities, and social problems than children of non-smoking mothers. Some reasons ...

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 ...

New research has turned up another reason for women to avoid smoking during pregnancy. A recent study published in the journal Gut Microbes has found an association between mothers smoking during ...

Observational study points to potential dual-exposure harms ...

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 ...