Experimenting with smoking represents a form of risk-taking for some teens while it can serve as the onset of long-term chronic cigarette smoking for others. Deciding which group a given teenager is a ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - American kids can breathe a sigh of relief, according to a study out today in the journal Pediatrics that finds their exposure to second-hand smoke at home has dropped ...

Middle-school kids who participate in lots of sports are less likely to start smoking than other kids, new research finds. Yet, students with teammates who smoke are more likely to smoke, too. This ...

Seventy-three students rallied Wednesday to get students at Simle Middle School to either quite smoking for a day or pledge to never pick up the habit. Members of Students Against Destructive ...

With so many more people smoking pot in public – even though it’s still illegal to do so – there’s growing blowback from those who say even though they support legalization, they don’t want their kids ...

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 ...