Small study cites increased movements of unborn babies when moms smoked. The study looked at fetuses for both smoking and non-smoking women. The fetuses, whose mother's smoked, tended to touch ...

Smoking offers a palpable pause, a singular moment of physical presence in an existence mediated by ever-present pressure.

The findings shouldn't be seen as showing that prenatal use of alcohol and drugs aside from cigarettes isn't as harmful to a child's sleep as smoking in pregnancy, Stone noted.

While the findings don't prove that cigarette smoking during pregnancy causes changes in children's brains or behavior, they offer one more piece of evidence that should encourage women not to ...

If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on ...

“If I wanted to, I could sit with a glass of wine in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, with a cigarette pressed between my lips, under the influence of prescription narcotics — all the ...

Smoking while pregnant In 1999, West Virginia had the highest percentage of women who smoked during pregnancy. These are the top five and bottom five states: 1. West Virginia 26.1% 2. Kentucky 24. ...

The answer to Then's prayers and the push she needed was finding out about Columbus Public Health's "Moms Quit for Two Program," a smoking cessation program developed for pregnant and postpartum ...

The smoking rate in WA's Kimberley region dwarfs the national figure of under 10 per cent, but community-led programs are ...

Cigarette smoking among Americans has plummeted to an all-time low, with only 11 percent of U.S. adults saying they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, according to a new Gallup poll.