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Submitted by Aparna on 21 September 2015

If you needed another reason to quit smoking:

According to a recent study daughters were almost four times likelier to be nicotine-dependent when their mom was, and more than twice as likely if their mom was a former smoker, but they were unaffected by their dad's smoking habits. "Sons' [nicotine] dependence," on the other hand, "was not affected by parental dependence and smoking patterns."

In fact, one of the researchers' conclusions is very simple: "Reducing parental smoking would reduce adolescent smoking."

Source:

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/09/more-evidence-not-to-smoke-around-your-kid.html

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302775

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