Smoking and Pregnancy — A Review on the First Major Environmental Risk Factor of the Unborn

Smoking cigarettes throughout pregnancy is one of the single most important avoidable causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes and it represents the first major environmental risk of the unborn. If compared with other risk factors in the perinatal period, exposure to tobacco smoke is considered to be am...

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Main Authors: Mathias Mund, Frank Louwen, Doris Klingelhoefer, Alexander Gerber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-11-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/10/12/6485