Dangers of Smoking For Pregnant Women

Same dangers of passive smoking by a pregnant mother who also smoked. For pregnant women, it was not enough to just stop smoking. To protect the growing fetus, all family members should also quit smoking and expectant mothers should avoid contact with anyone who smokes.

The data collected during the last three years by Stephen G. Grant, showed that women who become passive smokers gave birth to babies who have genetic mutations, as well as female smokers.

"Secondhand smoke has adverse effects to the fetus as well as passive smokers, " Said Stephen G. Grant who became the environmental health researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. Their work was recently published in the online journal BMC Pediatrics.


In his research, umbilical cord blood samples from newborns were tested to see changes in HPRT gene, located on chromosome X or chromosome that carried a woman.

The study compared the rate of gene mutations in newborns from mothers who smoke, quitting smoking during pregnancy, live or work in environments smoker or no contact with smokers.

"We found that all three of these environments have similar results, except in women who had no contact with smokers, the results are totally different" says Grant.

"Doctors should encourage their husbands to quit smoking when his wife was pregnant", suggestions dr.Barry Finette, a pediatrician at the University of Vermont.

"A lot of strong evidence indicating that passive smokers have health problems, either to them or her fetus," he said again.

So if you are planning a pregnancy, plan also to avoid the smokers.


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