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    How Cigarettes Affect Pregnancy
Researchers from the University of Florida and Columbia University have conducted an extensive review of the research dealing with the effects cigarette smoking has on getting pregnant and having a successful pregnancy and healthy baby.
   Pregnancy and Smoking: What it Means to be Smoking for Two
What It Means To Be Smoking For Two
   Infants Born to Smoking Mothers Have Abnormal Breathing Patterns
Research has established that babies whose mothers smoked while pregnant may be as much as six times more likely to die from SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) than babies of nonsmoking mothers.
   Study Confirms Role of Cocaine and Nicotine in Miscarriages
Higher miscarriage rates have been linked to both cocaine use and cigarette smoking by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.

Web Links
   Useful Resources to Quit Smoking from the Centers for Disease Control
   QuitNet ~ the web's original quit smoking site.

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