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Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether or not their adolescent children who experiment with tobacco progress to become daily smokers before they graduate from high school.A study published on-line and in the September issue of journal Pediatrics shows that parents can be a positive or negative influence on their children's future smoking habit."If parents really don't want their children to smoke they need to communicate that by establishing...

A new study has found that friends have a strong influence over whether teenagers move from merely experimenting with cigarettes to becoming full-fledged smokers. The study showed that 58 percent of the 270 teenagers who had become occasional smokers made it a daily habit by 12th grade. According to a study published in the journal Pediatrics, the likelihood of that happening depended partly on friends and parents. Teens were also more likely to become smokers when friends or parents...