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• Home Smoking Bans Prevent Teens From Lighting Up 

Parents who enforce no-smoking rules at home are less likely to have teens who experiment with cigarettes, a new study finds.

"This basic intervention implementing a household smoking ban has the potential to promote antismoking norms and to prevent adolescent smoking," said lead study author Alison Albers, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health.

Albers and colleagues interviewed 2,217 Massachusetts adolescents ages 12 to 17, and followed them for four years. They discovered that teens living in households that did not ban smoking were more likely to report smoking as socially acceptable, compared to teens whose parents banned smoking.

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