Записи с меткой: Parents’ Divorce

Children whose parents divorce are more likely to smoke as adults than kids from families of divorce, according to a new study.

Men who were younger than 18 when their parents divorced were 48 percent more likely to have smoked at least 100 or more cigarettes than men whose parents did not divorce. For women, the risk was 39 percent higher, according to the researchers from the University of Toronto.

«Finding this link between parental divorce and smoking is very disturbing,» study lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, chairwoman of the social work faculty, said in a university news release.

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