smoking in pregnancy

Pregnant Smokers Have Aggressive Kids

The number of women who smoke is expected to more than double in the next 30 years ...
Women who smoke when pregnant are more likely to have agressive children ...
The scentists call on governments to do more to help mothers stop smoking ...

Scotland: Pregnant Women Tested for Smoking

NHS Greater Glasgow has introduced the system because it is thought many women lie about continuing to smoke when pregnant because they are embarrassed about their behaviour ...
Midwives will take carbon monoxide readings from women at clinics across Glasgow when they attend for the usual medical checks, such as blood pressure ...
That's the conclusion of a report made public at an international conference on aggression in Montreal ...
Experts say smoking during pregnancy can adversely affect lung development in an infant, and the child has a higher risk of asthma and inner ear problems ...

Act of Smoking as Addictive as Nicotine

That's the conclusion of a report made public at an international conference on aggression in Montreal ...
The number of women who smoke is expected to more than double in the next 30 years ...
A risk assessment will then be carried out to determine if placing the mother on NRT would be in the best interests of the child ...
When the technician counted down Researchers follow the path of compulsion and find that the act of smoking is just as compelling as the drug ...

Series Of Tobacco-Perception Polling Articles From The Public Perspective

In many ways, the political community's misunderstanding of public views on the tobacco bill is an exact replay of its misreading of opinion on health-care reform and the Clinton plan in the 1993-94 debate ...
The children hit more, they grab toys from other children, and they're antisocial, according to Dr ...
Shortly after cigarette ads were banned on TV and radio in 1969, two-thirds of Americans in a Louis Harris and Associates survey rated Congress' work in this area as legislatively, but that's where American opinion is vis-a-vis the ...
A review of polling indicates that, historically, the public has generally supported governmental efforts to regulate smoking ...
By overwhelming majorities, we say that ultimately the decision to smoke or not should be a personal one that adults are free to make ...

Latest Report on Bibi Cigarettes, from the MMWR

The habit can seriously damage unborn babies and is linked to premature births, miscarriages and still births ...
The children hit more, they grab toys from other children, and they're antisocial, according to Dr ...
That's the conclusion of a report made public at an international conference on aggression in Montreal ...

U.S. Tobacco Lawyer Accuses DOJ Witness of Plagiarism in Racketeering Suit Against Big Tobacco

Data gathered in the community were from areas frequented by students (i ...
Contemporary opposition to the growth of government, including tax hikes, together with long-standing commitments to individual choice and individual responsibility, came together, then, to make the tobacco bill anything but a winner ...
Breathe is part of Glasgow's attempt to meet the Scottish Executive national target of reducing the number of expectant mothers who are smokers to 23% by 2005 and to 20% by 2010 ...
And what was once a socially accepted behavior, freely enjoyed in public by close to half of Americans, is now frowned upon as a serious health risk, practiced increasingly in private ...
They had been among a long list of people for whom the government was planning to submit testimony from previous smoking lawsuits ...

Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Primes Brain for Addiction

DURHAM -- Tethered to a pulse monitor, Robert Marrow sat in a tiny office and waited for the lab technician's cue ...
A greater proportion of community respondents reported heavy and past-month bidi use than school respondents ...
Epidemiological studies by other researchers have shown that such maternal smoking leaves children prone to smoke as adolescents, regardless of whether the parental smoking continues during childhood ...

Pregnant Smoking Hurts Sons

These effects were not seen in the sons of women who smoked one to 10 cigarettes per day when they were pregnant, Storgaard and colleagues note ...
The team found in rat studies that exposure to nicotine in fetal development alters the brain structures and brain cell activity in regions critical to learning, memory and reward ...
By overwhelming majorities, we say that ultimately the decision to smoke or not should be a personal one that adults are free to make ...
Data gathered in the community were from areas frequented by students (i ...
Mothers of 265 of the men completed questionnaires on how much they smoked during pregnancy ...

Certain Gene May Put Some Children at Greater Risk of Developing Asthma from ETS

NHS Greater Glasgow has introduced the system because it is thought many women lie about continuing to smoke when pregnant because they are embarrassed about their behaviour ...
The researchers then studied the effects of their exposure to smoking Some children may be at a greater risk than others of developing asthma from second-hand smoke because of their genes, say scientists ...
A greater proportion of community respondents reported heavy and past-month bidi use than school respondents ...
Breathe is part of Glasgow's attempt to meet the Scottish Executive national target of reducing the number of expectant mothers who are smokers to 23% by 2005 and to 20% by 2010 ...

Smoking Reduces Chances of Being a Dad

A convenience sample included a school- and community-based survey of youth from a large metropolitan area in Massachusetts ...
The researchers found that smoking was the only significant predictor of outcome in couples receiving ICSI treatment ...
Midwives will take carbon monoxide readings from women at clinics across Glasgow when they attend for the usual medical checks, such as blood pressure ...