Smoking harms unborn
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BI 11.00 7.05 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.15 9.20 9.50 10.40 10.45 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.30 70.40 11.10 12.35 US doctor MARTIN ZARROP ANOTHER warning of smoking hazards - this time aimed particularly at pregnant women—has been issued by the US Surgeon-General.
Speaking to a conference on the dangers of smoking, top surgeon Dr Jessee Steinfeld said on Monday that 'the ' habit' can harm and even kill the unborn "child and that a new anti-smoking campaign should be directed at women.
Dr Steinfeld told his audience that there was substantial evidence that smoking during pregnancy caused harm by exerting a retarding influence on foetal growth.
In one survey,, 20 per cent more women smokers lost their babies in pregnancy than nonsmokers.
Adverse effects
'The mother who smokes is subjecting the unborn child to the adverse effects of tobacco and as a result we are losing and possibly handicapping babies, said Dr Steinfeld.
These comments support the recently-published report of the British Royal College of Physicians.
The RCP report - 'Smoking and Health Now' - warns that smoking gives rises to smaller babies, more abortions and higher mortality in the immediate post-natal period.
It also estimates that 3,500 women are at present dying every year through smoking.
However, Dr Steinfeld also claims that women find it more difficult than men to give up tobaceo. • More smoking 'Considerably fewer men are smoking now than they did 15 years ago, but the proportion ot women smokers in every age group except the 18-24 group is higher today than it was in 1955, he said.
"Most certainly some women keep up the smoking habit because of the fear of gaining weight which often accompanies cessation.' He said that last year in America only 15 per cent of women were able to quit smoking, while more than 25 per cent of men gave it up.
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