Smoking habits could be passed down through gender roles

The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics has done a study that there is a possibility that if a father smokes then there is a bigger chance of his son being a smoker and vice versa for mothers and daughters. the studies show there is a 24 percent chance for boys to become smokers if their parents are and a 12 percent chance if they're not. for girls there is a 23 percent chance to become a smoker if their parents are smokers and a 12 percent chance if they are not.

 

Mothers are portrayed as neutering, caring, beautiful women in the eyes of their children mainly daughters. Fathers are portrayed as tough, manly, intelligent men in the eyes of the of their children. The influence we have on our children is greater than we sometimes think. Our children just want to grow up and make us proud, and they think acting like us will do so. Girls will put on make up, and boys pretend to shave because those products and routines happen so frequently that they are commonly found in the average home making children think they are okay. This study is just children being influenced by the wrong things by their parents. if parents did not show there children that they need to smoke to be happy or do it so often then children will not think they will need to do it to be just like their old man.