Parents play a prominent role in molding the adult their children become, and new research suggests this is true for health as well as character . A study has found children exposed to their parents' smoking are at a greater risk of developing heart disease in adulthood than the children of nonsmoking parents.
The new study, published in Circulation , adds to the growing evidence demonstrating that parents smoking can have a long-term effect on their children's cardiovascular health. Parents can reduce their children's risk of heart disease by not smoking in the home and smoking well away from their children.
"For parents who are trying to quit smoking, they may be able to reduce some of the potential long-term risk for their children by actively reducing their children's exposure to secondhand smoke (i.e., not smoking inside the home, car, or smoke well away from their children)," states Magnussen.
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