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 who enter puberty early are more likely to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol and marijuana than those who physically mature later, mostly because their window of opportunity for experimentation is wider, researchers have found.
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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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(Washington-AP) Dec. 22, 2004 - A federal report finds slightly fewer teens smoked or used drugs this year than last. The University of Michigan study reports smoking among younger teens is half the level
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NEW YORK  - High school girls who have recently experienced dating violence and boys who have a history of being sexually assaulted are at increased risk of attempting suicide, a new study of New York City public school students shows.
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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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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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Mouth cancer rates could soar because young people are smoking and drinking more, experts have warned.
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Fans of hip hop music are likely to have   had more sexual partners in the last five years while many of   those who prefer classical strains will have tried cannabis,   according to a study released on Thursday.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. The Health Department is aiming its latest anti-smoking campaign at 18- to 25-year-old Vermonters. About 30 percent of the people in that age group smoke.
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Smokers in their 30s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers, a study has found. Finnish researchers analysing a World Health Organisation study of non-fatal heart
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Teens who drink, smoke cigarettes or use marijuana by themselves are more likely to have health and behavioral problems as young adults than those who do the same things with others, researchers reported on Thursday.
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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
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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.
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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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About one-third of attention deficit cases among U.S. children may be linked with tobacco smoke before birth or to lead exposure afterward, according to provocative new research.
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NEW YORK  - Nicotine replacement therapy can help teens quit or at least cut back on smoking, research suggests.