Smoking and Pregnancy

Tobacco is absolutely against-indicated in pregnancy by the extremely serious repercussions it may have on the fetus.

Women who smoke often have babies smaller than normal weight (200 to 300 g less on average).

This is due to poor oxygenation of the fetus and zinc deficiency (cadmium from tobacco smoke captures the zinc in the placenta).

That fetal growth retardation is often associated with significant disorders in education (educational backwardness very common and very late net intellectual apprenticeship).

If the mother smokes more than 20 cigarettes per day, a teratogenic risk exists (possible fetal malformations).

Moreover, it seems demonstrated that women smokers are much more likely to have children with behavioral problems, sometimes very serious, like fire, to become responsible for vandalism, physical cruelty, sexual coercion and flights (American study by Dr. Wakshiag Chicago).

Changes in the functioning of the nervous children might be related to a change in the uptake of SEROTONIN and the synthesis of DNA and RNA (see these terms) in the brains of these children of smoking mothers.

It was also shown that children of smoking mothers have a much higher risk of stroke, myocardial infarction and cancer development when they have over fifty.