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Smoking and Pregnancy

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It is generally recognised that smoking during pregnancy is harmful to the foetus. When the risks associated with cigarette smoking are compared with other risks arising in the perinatal period, the harmful effects of smoking are clearly found to outweigh all other factors. The combustion products of tobacco are considered to be more harmful than nicotine, although uncertainty persists concerning the relative proportion of embryotoxic and faetotoxic effects that are attributable to nicotine or to the combustion products of tobacco. This problem is important because in 1994 more than 10% of women in Germany continued to smoke during pregnancy (Table 8.1)! The lowest prevalence rates for smoking among women were recorded in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. More up-to-date statistics for Germany are not yet available but it is estimated that some 20% of all women continue to smoke during pregnancy [2]. Similarly high percentages are reported from the USA [3].

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