Preteen daters more likely to take up smoking: study
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Children who start dating before their teens are at least twice as likely as other youngsters to become smokers, researchers said on Friday.
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Kids and teenagers exposed to even trace amounts of secondhand smoke score lower on tests of reading and reasoning, according to new research.
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Smoking during pregnancy is  known to raise a child's future asthma risk, but children with  a particular gene variation may be especially vulnerable, a  study published Tuesday suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Kids and teenagers exposed to  even trace amounts of secondhand smoke score lower on tests of  reading and reasoning, according to new research.
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Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection compared with non-smokers, research suggests.
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Hundreds of thousands of  U.S. youngsters under the age of 18 start using tobacco each  year as a direct result of it being featured in films, videos,  advertising and give-away samples, a report said on Monday.
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Four out of five people want the legal smoking age to be raised from 16 to 18 years, according to a poll. Eighty percent of respondents believed raising the age at which teenagers could
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Researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh looked at how the cognitive abilities of smokers and non-smokers changed over time.
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People under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, a study shows.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    ------      Early Puberty Increases Risk of Substance Abuse      Youngsters who begin puberty at an early age are more likely to experiment with and abuse alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana than kids who start puberty at a later age, says a Australian study in the September issue of the journal Pediatrics.      The study found that early puberty was more important than school grade or age in influencing this kind of behavior...
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The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic beverages is rising faster than that of boys, and on average the girls take their first drink at age 13, the American Medical Association said Thursday in reporting the findings of two surveys.
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CHICAGO, March 5 (Reuters Life!) - White U.S. teenagers who watch a lot of R-rated movies or have unsupervised access to TV shows appear more likely than similar black youths to start smoking cigarettes, a study found on Monday.
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MONDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- The largest study of its kind has come up with hard, cold numbers that pinpoint the risk of lung cancer for smokers and former smokers.
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NEW YORK  - The findings of a new study confirm that lung cancer among nonsmokers is more common in women than in men.
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More adults, especially women,  are smoking these days and their secondhand smoke may be  contributing to the asthma epidemic among children in the  United States, results of a study suggest.
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Girls with boyfriends two or more years older are more than twice as likely to drink, according to a new national survey.
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Teenagers and young adults who gamble are more likely to have substance use disorders and psychiatric problems, according to researchers from Yale University.