Teenagers of Parents Who Smoke Are 55% More Likely To Pick Up Cigarettes, E-Cigarettes: New Study
Representative image(Syed Asif/TOI Bangalore)Parents, take note! If you smoke, then there are chances that you might influence your teenage kids, as a new study has shown that teenagers whose parents are smokers are more likely to try e-cigarettes.The research, presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain, indicated that teenagers whose parents smoked were around 55 per cent more likely to have tried e-cigarettes and about 51 per cent more likely to have tried smoking."We can see that the number of teenagers using e-cigarettes is changing fast, so we need to keep monitoring the situation in Ireland and around the world. We also plan to study social...
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