"The effect was particularly strong if young people were exposed to a parent's tobacco use before their teen years, Dr. Stephen E. Gilman of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and his colleagues found. But they also found that in children of ex-smokers 'that risk goes away if parents quit,' Gilman explained in an interview."The study also found that while each parent independently influenced the likelihood that a teenager would smoke, mothers influenced both sons and daughters equally, while fathers had more influence over sons. Source: Reuters
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