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Tobacco smoking during pregnancy causes many detrimental effects on health and reproduction, in addition to the general health effects of tobacco.A number of studies have shown that tobacco use is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, and that it contributes to a number of other threats to the health of the foetus.
An Indian man smoking through a hookah, Rajasthan, India.. A hookah (also see other names), [1] [2] [3] shisha, [3] or waterpipe [3] is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco (often muʽassel), or sometimes cannabis, hashish and opium. [3]
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman's uterus (womb). [4] [13] A multiple pregnancy involves more than one offspring, such as with twins. [14] Pregnancy usually occurs by sexual intercourse, but can also occur through assisted reproductive technology procedures. [6]
Seven months pregnant, Tiffany eats a nutrition free diet of pizza, kebab and two litres of fizzy drinks a day, with not a piece of fruit in sight. Teen parents-to-be Sarah and Stewart know their smoking is bad for their baby but still haven't found the willpower, six months into pregnancy, to stub out the fags for good. 5: 19 May 2011
The three warning messages below, all meaning "Smoking kills", are posted on cigarette packs until 2024: (in German) Rauchen tötet. (in French) Fumer tue. (in Italian) Il fumo uccide. Since October 2024, the Federal Act on Tobacco Products updated the warnings to "Smoking kills – stop now": (in German) Rauchen ist tödlich – hören Sie ...
A typical session of smoking muʽassel results in a user inhaling 90,000 ml of smoke versus 500 ml for a cigarette, as well as 1.7 times as much nicotine, 8.4 times as much carbon monoxide, and 36 times as much tar. [27] Muʽassel smoking also exposes users to heavy metals and is thought to expose users to more carcinogens than cigarettes. [28]
Hookah, a water-cooled apparatus for smoking; Hubble bubble (astronomy), a local anomaly in the Hubble constant; a variant of the bubble and squeak in English cuisine; Hubble Bubble, a Belgian punk band
It is written in Early Modern English and refers to medical theories of the time (e.g. the four humours). [2] In it James blames the Native Americans for bringing tobacco to Europe, complains about passive smoking, warns of dangers to the lungs, and decries tobacco's odour as "hatefull to the nose."