Up to half of women who give up cigarette smoking when they get pregnant pick up the habit again within six months of giving birth. “(Smoking) helps them handle stress, anxiety, times of uncertainty,” ...

HealthDay News — Maternal tobacco smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for increased childhood blood pressure (BP) and hypertension, according to a research letter published in Circulation.

Maternal smoking has been linked to sudden infant death syndrome. According to federal estimates, smoking-attributable newborn health care costs for Medicaid total $738 per pregnant smoker. The ...

Pregnant women are exposed to lower levels of toxic chemicals if they vape during pregnancy compared with if they smoke cigarettes, according to new research led by scientists at City St George’s, ...

Rewards and financial incentives are successful methods to help people quit smoking, according to a new Cochrane review co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health and health policy ...

A study published in JAAD has found that high-dose Vitamin D during pregnancy may help prevent atopic dermatitis in children of mothers exposed to tobacco smoke. In a post-hoc analysis of ...

It’s not often that Missouri lawmakers do the right thing regarding tobacco, but they did in the session that ended last week. Tucked into a budget bill they approved is a provision that will help ...

MORE than 330 children are born in Bradford each year to mothers who smoked during their pregnancy – health bosses have been told. And in one part of the district, one in four mums smoke while ...

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) -- About 19 of 100 pregnant women smoke in South Dakota, almost twice the national rate of 10 smokers per 100 pregnant women. And people who oppose smoking plan to use money from ...