Southampton, United Kingdom: Smoking can harm not only the smokers but also their future children.
According to media reports, new research has found that boys who smoke in their early teens are more likely to pass on harmful genetic traits to their future children.
The aforementioned study examined the genetic profiles of 875 people between the ages of 7 and 50 and their father’s smoking behavior. Children whose fathers smoked from early adolescence had genetic markers of asthma, obesity, and poor lung function.
According to researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK and the University of Bergen in Norway, this is the first human study to show that the effects of fathers’ early smoking are reflected in their children.
The changes in genetic markers were more pronounced in children whose fathers started smoking during puberty, said Negos Kitaba, a researcher at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study. compared to those whose fathers had started smoking sometime before pregnancy.
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