Smoking in front of your kids may increase their risk of heart disease as adults

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/aha-sif031815.php

Public Release: 23-Mar-2015
American Heart Association

Kids exposed to their parents' smoking may have a higher risk of developing heart disease in adulthood than those whose parents didn't smoke, according to research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

The study's results add to the growing evidence that exposure to smoking from parents has a lasting effect on children's cardiovascular health in adulthood.

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Regardless of other factors, the risk of developing carotid plaque in adulthood was almost two times (1.7) higher in children exposed to one or two parental smokers compared to children of parents who did not smoke. Further, risk was elevated whether parents seemed to limit their children's exposure:

Almost two times (1.6) higher in children whose parents smoked, but seemed to limit their children's exposure.

Four times higher in children whose parents smoked but did not seem to limit their children's exposure.

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