Cigarette smoking among drug dependent pregnant women is alarmingly high, estimated at 77 to 99 percent. Programs that treat pregnant patients for substance use disorders often fail to address ...

Pregnant smokers may "program" their children to become smokers, suggests research published in Tobacco Control. The authors base their findings on over 3,000 mothers and their children, who were part ...

Pregnant smokers reduced their smoking by an average of one cigarette per day before becoming aware they were pregnant, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study of more than 400 pregnant people. Then ...

Concern about fetal health is widely viewed as the reason pregnant women drink and smoke less than non-pregnant women. In this study, scientists hypothesized that biological factors could also play a ...

Like many people, I really and truly hate the smell of cigarette smoke—and now that I’m pregnant, I make a concerted effort to avoid being near it at all, including dodging smokers walking in front of ...