Lock up your sons and daughters

5 December, 2006 in tobacco

I’ve been sent an email copy of a press release from Cancer Research UK which links smoking to having a boyfriend or girlfriend early in life.

Children who have a boyfriend or girlfriend in their pre-teen years are at least twice as likely to become smokers before leaving school according to a Cancer Research UK study published today (Friday) in the journal Addiction.

The researchers hope that understanding more about the personalities of young smokers will help them unravel what motivates children to take up smoking. This is important for developing effective anti-smoking initiatives for this vulnerable age group.

Googling around I see this was covered in the New Zealand Herald but isn’t as yet online on the Cancer Research UK website. I’ve also not been able to see it on the Addiction Journal website.