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 ...

Prior studies have shown a variety of benefits for parents who quit smoking, including elimination of future tobacco-related poor pregnancy outcomes, reducing the likelihood of their children becoming ...

When pretending to shop for a social evening, children two to six years old were nearly four times as likely to choose cigarettes if their parents smoked and children who viewed PG-13- or R-rated ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Friends and parents have a strong influence over whether teenagers move from experimenting with cigarettes to becoming full-fledged smokers -- but so do parents, a new study ...

Nearly 19 million children in the United States have at least one parent with a substance use disorder, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. And a significant number of those ...

Smoke one cigarette in a car, and the air quality is 11 times worse than in a bar where smoking is allowed. Even with the windows down and the cigarette held at the window, the air quality is ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Mass General Brigham have found that integrating an automated smoking cessation intervention for parents into pediatric primary care ...