Smoking parents doom their children

To an interesting conclusion came scientists from Canada, they say that children can start to smoke not just follow their parents, but also due to the fact that their lungs are already "attached" to Smoking at home. That is, parents not only set a bad example to their children, but also acquaint them with the taste of tobacco, thus they increase the probability that after they will become heavy smokers.

A group of scientists from the Montreal chest Institute conducted an experiment, watching the growing up of almost two hundred children who were 9 years old. Scientists have made a change in the concentration of cotinine in the saliva of children. Cotinine is a metabolic byproduct of nicotine that causes tobacco addiction in humans. Inhaled tobacco smoke is converted to cotinine. The concentration of cotinine may be measured in blood and in saliva. In children, the concentration of cotinine was different. Only one child level of cotinine in this study period showed that this child is already Smoking. Following the examination of children a scientist had, when the children are over 13 years old. At this point, almost 80% of these children were also high school students, and 44% of them started Smoking. Because of this, scientists came to the conclusion that the level of cotinine, which was identified in the first research period can be almost an exact indicator of whether the child to smoke to the second stage.

This mainly applies to those who started Smoking at an early age. The conclusions made are that whose level of cotinine was high in 9 years, the possibility that he will smoke in older age, much more! But to come into puberty very important kotinen already has, it increases the possibility of Smoking only 20 %. Parents who smoke in front of the kids, causing them much more harm than you think.