3 MAJOR REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD QUIT SMOKING NOW

Published: December 12, 2007, 11:01 pm

The reasons to quit smoking could fill a whole library of books. If i decide to list and explain all the reasons, you'd probably be reading for days.But here a 3 major reasons why you should quit nowSmoking and your unborn child When you smoke, your unborn baby smokes, too. On average, babies of women who smoke weigh less at birth than babies of nonsmokers. And if you smoke a lot during pregnancy (more than a pack a day), the baby's birth weight is likely to be even lower. This is not surprising, since the nicotine in cigarettes causes the baby's blood to be starved of the oxygen needed for healthy growth. Although, the baby quickly gains back the lost weight, by age 7 a child of a mother who smoked during pregnancy is still more likely than other children to be shorter in height, slower at reading and lower in "social adjustment" than children of nonsmoking mothers. Statistics show that infant mortality (the death of the baby either at birth or through a miscarriage) is 50 percent

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