Parents beware: babies are affected when the parents smoke. Study shows that continine, a chemical released when the body breaks down nicotine, is more likely to be found in urine samples of babies with smoking parents.

Negative effects are still uncertain, but a senior lecturer on child health, Mike Wailoo, said that exposure to tobacco smoke isn't exactly healthy. Not really rocket science, is it?

In a research conducted with 104 babies 10-12 weeks old, Wailoo and his colleagues found out that babies with smoking folks had almost five times more continine than those with non-smoking parents. Moms with the habit quadruple continine levels, while dads double them.

Wailoo did say that it's up to parents if they want to smoke around the child or not, but it's sad to think how the cute infants become passive smokers before even turning into toddlers.

As Wailoo's team says, "The well-recognized maternal desire to protect the child is the great hope for the future."