PART 2.
“QUALIFIED FORM” OF PASSIVE SMOKING: EFFECTS OF SMOKING DURING
PREGNANCY AND BREAST-FEEDING PERIOD
- Smoking during pregnancy leads to more frequent foetal death miscarriage, premature birth and death about parturition.
- Smoking during pregnancy will retard the development of the embryo, hence it will diminish the weight, length, head and breast circumference of the new-born.
- Smoking during pregnancy may imperil the mental capacity of the child.
- Among the new-born of pregnant smokers respiratory infections are frequent.
- Smoking during the breast-feeding period will damage the baby’s health. - The milk will “pass on” the poisons elements of tobacco smoke.
- Smoking during pregnancy or the breast-feeding period leads to more frequent “sudden infant death”.
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