Women who are passive smokers from childhood and adolescence are more prone to complications during pregnancy than those who did not inhale tobacco smoke on a regular basis, US researchers reported, according to an Internet publication for girls and women aged 14-35 who are Pannochka. Net Scientists from the University of Rochester in New York suggest that the toxins contained in the smoke, cause serious harm to the female body, causing in the long term problems with health. The study involved 4800 women. Participants had to report all their pregnancies, attempts to get pregnant, miscarriages, and passive and non-passive smoking.

The results of the study were published in the journal Tobacco Control.

Experts reported that women whose parents smoked next to them were 26% more likely to develop complications during pregnancy, and those women who were regularly exposed to tobacco smoke and in adulthood by 39%. Such statistics are alarming and point to new dangers of secondhand smoke associated with complications, miscarriages, birth defects and sudden death of an infant during sleep.

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