Health - Quick guide to ... Smoking while pregnant

3 February 2009 1 min read Health

According to figures from 2005, around a third of women smoke before pregnancy but around half of these manage to stop when they become pregnant. The government has a target of reducing to 15 per cent the proportion of women who smoke during pregnancy by 2010

17% of women smoke throughout pregnancy

200g average weight difference between children born to smokers and other babies

250ml the reduction per day in breast milk production in smoking mothers

Sources: Infant Feeding Survey 2005 and American journal Clinical Nutrition.

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