Children tend to follow the Parents their who smoke

June 17, 2011 by: Jane category: children and baby's health

Smoking is certainly not in good health and can cause different diseases. Smokers themselves are aware of the dangers of this bad habits.

The smoke is inhaled, smoke is also dangerous for others around smokers. A recent study reveals that smoking from children makes not only?second-hand smokers, but could also trap that they are mentally attracted by cigarettes.

Research at Concordia University and the University of Montreal found that children who often see their parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors smoke will be interested in cigarette as well. Generally, they will follow the and will become a smoker.

Research published in the journal Oxford Nicotine and involved tobacco 327 children aged between 11 and 33 years. Asked about the habits of smoking in their families and their environment.

"These children see smoking as something which is not bad because their parents also smoke," said Simon Racicot, a researcher that led to the study, according to ReliefWeb Whats is worse that children who are exposed to cigarette smoke would almost certainly smoke in adolescence.

Jennifer j. McGrath, Professor at Concordia University, said that currently 60 per cent of children in North America become passive smokers. "These children are exposed to nicotine and they absorb the poison," said.