Don't smoke around your kids, it will make them aggressive, claims study!

Smoking around your kids may not be a good idea as a new study has warned that kids exposed to passive smoking are more likely to grow up to be physically aggressive and antisocial. Aggressive behaviour in kids was linked to second hand smoke by the researchers from University of Montreal in Canada. Second hand smoke is in fact more dangerous that inhaled smoke, and 40 per cent of children worldwide are exposed to it. Moreover, exposure to this smoke at early childhood is particularly dangerous, as the child's brain is still developing. Those having been exposed to second hand smoke, even temporarily, were much more likely to report themselves as being more aggressive by the time they finished fourth grade. The longitudinal data collected by Quebec health authorities from birth onward on an annual basis was used for the research. The study found that second hand smoke exposure does cause deviant behaviour in later childhood, the study found. Previous studies looking at groups of children have generally asked mothers whether they smoked or not, and how much at each follow-up, rather than asking whether someone smoked in the home where young children live and play. Furthermore, few studies have looked at antisocial behaviour in the parents and even fewer have investigated the subsequent influence of prolonged exposure to second hand smoke over the long term. None have taken into account the fact that disadvantaged families are less likely to participate in a long study like this one, which of course skews the statistics