California is the first state to take an action against third-hand smoking. To know what it means, what its harmful effects ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Each daily cannabis smoking event doubled the odds of children having biomarkers in their urine. Pediatricians ...

Reuters Health - Parents who quit smoking may be less likely to relapse when they discuss the dangers of cigarettes with their children, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers followed almost 700 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers analyzed cannabis smoking practices to assess whether in-home smoking was associated with cannabis detection in children. Researchers at University of California San Diego analyzed ...

My husband and I have two boys, “Aaron,” 9, and “Randall,” 7. Aaron has a friend from school, “Josh,” whose parents are major pot smokers. I have restricted play dates to our place, since I don’t want ...

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 ...

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 ...