UW News
Eric C. Brown
August 5, 2013
Abused children found to smoke more as teens and adults
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Researchers have long suspected some kind of link between childhood abuse and smoking. But in an interesting twist, UW researchers found a connection not between whether or not an abused child will ever begin smoking, but to how much they smoke once they do start.