Study: Children likely to adopt parents' bad habits
FRIDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Children with a parent who smokes, drinks heavily or uses marijuana are more likely to adopt these behaviors when they're teens or adults, U.S. research suggests.
Children of smokers are especially at risk, say a team from the University of Washington.
"If your parents were smokers, it is a double whammy because you are more likely to use drugs in general and even more likely to smoke cigarettes," study co-author Karl Hill, a research associate professor at the university's Social Development Research Group, said in a prepared statement....