Parental smoking puts nearly half a million UK children into poverty

Friday, May 29, 2015 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

Smoking is not only bad for your health; it also puts 400,000 children in poverty in the UK alone. Smoking places a financial burden on low income families, suggesting that parents are likely to forgo basic household and food necessities in order to fund their addiction.

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