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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.
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]
Smoking while pregnant can cause great harm to an unborn child. Nicotine and numerous other drugs travel through the mom's blood stream and directly to the child which can increase the baby's ...
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
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]
The use of tobacco products or exposure to secondhand smoke during pregnancy has been linked to low birth weight. [103] Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, citing studies which attribute 10% of infant deaths to tobacco-smoking mothers, considered adopting a smoking ban for pregnant women in 2006 with the aim of reducing infant mortality. [104]
MPOWER is a policy package intended to assist in the country-level implementation of effective interventions to reduce the demand for tobacco, as ratified by the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. [1]
Pregnant women who wish to quit smoking but are unable to are left with few options. [62] As nicotine replacement products are often ineffective for quitting smoking, pregnant women turn to alternatives such as HTPs. [36] There is no information available on the potential impact of HTP emissions from mother to fetus as of 2018. [36]