Teen children of heavy smokers are more likely to try cigarettes and to become heavy smokers themselves, a new study suggests.
The researchers found that the more years a child was exposed to parental smoking, the greater the risk the child would experiment with smoking or even pick up the unhealthy habit.
These findings suggest that parents who smoke should quit smoking as early as possible in their children's lives to reduce the chances that their children will take up smoking when they're older, the researchers said.
"It is difficult to dissuade children from smoking if one or both parents are heavily dependent on cigarettes," lead investigator Darren Mays, an assistant professor of oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center, said in a center news release.
Smoking More Likely Among Teens Whose Parents Light Up
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