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Does exercise help pregnant women stop smoking?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Sep 25th 2008 11:01AM

One would think the obvious answer to that question is yes. One would surmise that exercise would help anyone stop smoking, right? After all, you're striving to do something healthy, sort of the opposite of smoking, by getting out there and running ...
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Smokers banned from adopting small children

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Jun 13th 2007 9:30AM

The law has come down on smokers in recent years: they can't smoke indoors, and sometimes not even outdoors. In some cases they're denied insurance and health care, and in some countries they can't smoke in their cars. And now, in a town in the UK, ...
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Smoking during pregnancy makes it harder for kids to quit

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 27th 2007 3:01PM

Smoking while pregnant is a bad idea. It leads to a higher chance of SIDS, ADHD, and obesity. It turns out it also means the child will have more difficulty quitting smoking should they start. According to Edward Levin, Ph.D., a professor of ...
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Your fetus, addicted to cigarettes

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Nov 29th 2006 10:00AM

From the cigarette, to your lungs, to your bloodstream, to your placenta, and into the fetal brain. This is how women who smoke while pregnant are addicting their unborn children. In a recent study, kids were found three times more likely to become ...
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Puff the magic addiction

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 11th 2006 11:30AM

Cigarettes are addictive. We all know that. What we didn't know is that the addiction begins the very first time a child inhales tobacco from a cigarette. As reported in the Australian news, newly published results from a five-year, Canadian study ...
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