Smoking is an important cause of preventable mortality and morbidity in later life (Ezzati and Lopez, 2004), so there is a need to understand the factors associated with its uptake and establishment.

This study assessed the relationship between the smoking behavior of adolescents and the smoking status of their parents and friends among adolescents from six European countries. A longitudinal study ...

A number of longitudinal studies have explored the role of friends', parents', and older siblings' smoking in children's smoking acquisition. A reasonable implication of this previous research is that ...

The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker ...

To what Extent does Peer Group Smoking Predict Adolescent Smoking? The tendency for adolescent peer group members to share common characteristics such as smoking, termed alternatively as peer group ...

Dear Eric: My partner and I have been invited to a couple of get-togethers with some folks, and they’ve asked us to host the next one. That’s fine with us, except we live in an area where wildfires ...

Every New Year, millions resolve to improve their health by setting goals like losing weight, exercising more, sleeping better, or just not stressing out over every little hurdle life throws on the ...