Parental smoking tied to kids' risk of lighting up

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Parental smoking tied to kids' risk of lighting up

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/parental-smoking-tied-kids-risk-lighting-204748095.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OvGLIOIvYIMwQeskKi8dTA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-08-05T204748Z_1_CBRE9741LRT00_RTROPTP_2_AUSTRALIA-TOBACCO-TAX.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman is silhouetted as she smokes a cigarette in Sydney" align="left" title="A woman is silhouetted as she smokes a cigarette in Sydney" border="0" /></a>By Andrew M. Seaman 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 falling smoking rates across age groups, researchers found that children raised by current or even former smokers were about three times more likely to be smokers themselves during their teenage years than kids raised by parents who never smoked. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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