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A new study released information that those who live with smokers are more likely to live in a home with unhealthy foods.  About 17% of children who live in smoking homes do not get enough healthy food and about 26% of adults had an unhealthy diet when living with a smoker.

Researchers from the NY University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital center have concluded that when living in a smoking household; children and adults are more likely to be underfed than those who do not live with a smoker.  The results of this study were published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine in the November 3rd edition.This experiment examined 8,817 homes.  Those who lived in the home were either smoking adults living with children ages 17 or under or non-smoking adults who lived with smoking adults.  Each home was analyzed for a 3 year period from 1999 - 2000.  These home were found to have less food available for those in the home than homes of non-smokers.

This means that each home lacked access to enough food in a socially acceptable way year round.  This was measured using the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Security Survey Module, which is a scale that measures how often a home cannot supply children with food that they desire, how many meals are skipped by the children, and how man of them go to bed hungry.
The study concluded that 23% of the households analyzed that had children had at least one smoking adult, and it revealed a higher percentage of smokers in the low-income ranges at 32%.