R-rated movies lure white teens into smoking: study
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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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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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FRIDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDayNews) -- Here's one more study that shows smoking is bad not only for the health of people who light up but also for those around them -- specifically, for children who breathe in their parents' secondhand smoke.
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More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say.
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A majority of teens see  movies within the first two weeks after their release, and  despite the surging popularity of the Internet among 13- to  17-year-olds, most find out about the latest films from TV ads  and in-theater trailers, according to a new study from consumer  research firm OTX and teen social networking site eCrush.
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Teenagers who watch a lot of television with sexual content are twice as likely to engage in intercourse than those who watch few such programs, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - The odds that adolescents will  smoke, drink or use marijuana may have a lot to do with their  physical development, regardless of their school grade level or  how old they are, a new study shows.
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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.
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NEW YORK  - First graders who misbehave in  school may be more likely to be regular smokers as young  adults, according to new study findings.
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Children exposed to passive smoking have a higher risk of developing lung cancer later in life than other youngsters, according to new research.
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Children exposed to passive smoking have  a higher risk of developing lung cancer later in life than  other youngsters, according to new research.
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WASHINGTON -- Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone, a federal study has found.
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A single gene could be responsible for determining how easily people become addicted to smoking, according to a report. By tweaking a gene in the brains of mice, US researchers were able to create a hypersensitive
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More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say
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Black children may be far more susceptible to the ill effects of second-hand tobacco smoke than their white counterparts, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Black Americans are less likely than whites to start smoking but they&#39;re also less likely to quit once they do start, says a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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One might imagine, similarly, that teenage moviegoers would see less television than their more movie-averse peers. But that is not so, according to data from IMMI.