Top medical experts have warned that teens whose parents or primary caregivers smoke, are four times more likely to take up smoking than than their peers whose parents do not.
A new campaign released by the UK government titled “Better Health Smoke Free” aims to educate on how adult smokers can influence younger people to take up the habit.
Featuring a number of experts on the topic, the Better Health Smoke Free campaign explains that research has shown that teens whose primary caregiver smoked were more than twice as likely to have tried cigarettes (26% vs 11% ) and four times as likely to be a regular smoker (4.9% vs 1.2%).
In a film released last year, the NHS and behavioural health experts discussed the link between smoking parents and the subsequent likelihood of their children to smoke. The speakers included GP Dr Nighat Arif, child psychologist Dr Bettina Hohnen, and smoking cessation experts Professor Nick Hopkinson and Dr Anthony Laverty of Imperial College London, who urged parents to act as positive role models by quitting smoking.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-07-20