Children whose parents smoke tend to miss more school than their classmates with non-smoking parents — possibly because of a higher rate of respiratory infections, a new study suggests. Subscribe to ...

New data published in this week's edition of pediatrics finds that children aged 6 to 11 years old, who live with smokers, have a greater chance of missing school than kids who don't have smokers in ...

(Reuters Health) - Kids with asthma are more likely to have breathing problems and be hospitalized when they live with a smoker, a research review suggests. The team analyzed data from 25 studies that ...

(HealthDay News) -- Peer pressure continues to prompt high school students to light up, new research suggests, because popular teens tend to smoke and they induce others to take up the habit in an ...

At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, about every other young patient has been exposed to tobacco smoke. Nationally, that rate is 35%. The high number of kids exposed to harmful second- ...

Young children are much more likely to get cavities if they live in a household with smokers, a Japanese study suggests. Compared to children in non-smoking households, kids living with smokers were ...

Florida has become the unfortunate leader in illegal vape sales — a troubling fact that highlights the urgent need for better regulation and enforcement. At the same time, we must ensure that smokers ...

Improved airway function appeared to mediate the association between vitamin C supplementation and wheeze in kids whose mothers smoked and received vitamin C during pregnancy, a secondary analysis of ...