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 ...

Zyns are in, cigarettes are back, everyone’s on amphetamines and drinking alcohol is done. The Post spoke with nearly a dozen local high school students about what substances they are — and aren’t — ...

(Reuters Health) – - In a Finnish study spanning 26 years, kids exposed to parental smoking were more likely to develop plaque in their carotid arteries as young adults than kids who were not exposed ...

This is a rather overlooked form of smoking. You are not the one smoking, nor standing near one, but the toxic particles can ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Defying the stereotype of the defiant teen-ager, new research suggests teens are much less likely to smoke if they think their parents disapprove of the habit. Parental disapproval works ...

Texas is set to get $1.8 billion this year from the huge tobacco-litigation settlement of a decade ago, but it will spend just 0.6 percent of that on preventing kids from smoking, a report from a ...

For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure to cigarette smoke in the family home could raise that risk even higher, new research shows. Photo by Adobe ...

April 4 -- FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Poor children are exposed to more secondhand smoke than their wealthier counterparts, a new study has found. A big reason for this is that "poor kids are ...

On Jan. 11, 1964, the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health showed that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and is linked to other serious diseases. It's a date celebrated by the President ...