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With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices

New research finds that socializing kids to drink at the family table -- often referred to as the "European drinking model" -- doesn't necessarily translate to more responsible drinking patterns. Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images hide caption

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Children's Health

With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices

Research suggests that parents have a great deal of influence over when and how their teens start drinking alcohol. Parents who disapproved completely of underage drinking tended to have students who drank less.

With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices

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Study: A Cigarette A Month Can Get A Kid Hooked

Teens who bum cigarettes every now and then find that addiction can happen before they know it. iStockphoto.com hide caption

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Children's Health

Study: A Cigarette A Month Can Get A Kid Hooked

Occasional smoking among middle-schoolers can lead to tobacco addiction, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Of the young people in the study who said they had inhaled from a cigarette, nearly two-thirds said they smoked at least once a month. Half experienced symptoms of dependence.

Study: A Cigarette A Month Can Get A Kid Hooked

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Thursday

Some Recent Grads Face Health Care Coverage Gap

Recent graduates might need to wait for coverage under their parents' plans. Andy Kropa/Getty Images hide caption

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Tracking The Overhaul

Some Recent Grads Face Health Care Coverage Gap

Despite a health care overhaul provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents' health plans until age 26, many 20-somethings and their families are discovering that when that coverage begins varies. It creates what the new health care legislation was supposed to eradicate: health care haves and have-nots.

Some Recent Grads Face Health Care Coverage Gap

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