Non-smoking adults have a higher risk of dying from serious lung disease if they grew up with parents who smoked, according to US research. The researchers said childhood passive smoking was ...

But a recent Government White Paper acknowledges that there are no clear reasons why child smokers should not use NRT products. According to latest research, around 450 children start smoking ...

More than 6,500 11-to-15-year-olds were surveyed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which estimated there were 207,000 new child smokers in Britain between 2010 and 2011 - an ...