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Not only are the children of pregnant women who smoke more likely to develop a host of health and behavioral problems – including asthma, attention deficit disorder and difficulty with reading and math – they are also more likely to take up smoking and to do so at an early age, a new study finds. The study, published in the Australian journal Tobacco Control, examined the smoking patterns of children of 3,058 mothers who took part in
a long-term study beginning in 1981. Researchers followed up with the children at age 21.
Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were nearly three times as likely to have started smoking before age 14 and to have become regular smokers than children whose mothers never smoked. |The Washington Post
