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Poor parental knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) on ETS often contribute to worse exposure of the kids. Thus, we aimed to document parental KAP regarding tobacco use, smoking cessation and children's ETS exposure, and to analyse how knowledge and attitude relate to practice.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> Self-administered KAP questionnaires were distributed to smoking parents recruited from the pediatric unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital, which provides pediatric service to a population of 1.2 million in Hong Kong. The 60-item questionnaire had a range of 0\u201338 for knowledge, 0\u201344 for attitude, and 0\u201340 for practice. Descriptive analyses were performed for KAP response, regression analyses were performed for the exploration of associations and identification of predictive indicators.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> 145 smoking parents (mean age: 38.0 \u00b1 6.7 yrs.; male: 85.5%) were included. Less than half (39.3%) of them reported a smoke-free policy at home. Among those parents who had private cars, less than half (45.2%) of them had smoke-free policy in their car that they never smoked in the car. Only 25.5% of the participants correctly answered \u226570% of the knowledge questions, and 11.8 % of the participants gave favorable responses to \u226570% of the attitude questions. The total knowledge and the total attitudes score were positively associated (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.35\u20130.79, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001), yet they were only modestly correlated with parental practice on children's ETS exposure. By multivariate regressions, potential predictive factors for more favorable parental KAP included higher household income, lower parental nicotine dependence level and breastfeeding practice.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Parental KAP related to tobacco use and children's ETS exposure needs improvement to address the significant gap between recommended and actual practice. 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