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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]
Stressed-out Laura is struggling to get her head around pregnancy a second time, and is worrying that her stress could be causing the baby damage. 6: 26 May 2011: Victoria works 60 hours a week, despite being five months pregnant, while Ceri-Anne is seven months pregnant and still smoking ten cigarettes a day despite also being asthmatic.
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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]
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
A hookah lounge (also called a shisha bar or den, especially in Britain and parts of Canada, or a hookah bar) is an establishment where patrons share shisha (flavoured tobacco) from a communal hookah or from one placed at each table or a bar.