| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 14 Pregnancy and fertility |
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| Pregnancy and fertility: Miscarriage |
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| 50% of female smokers in a survey were unaware that smoking during pregnancy |
| increases the risk for stillbirth and miscarriage. |
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| About 11% of all spontaneous abortions are attributable to smoking. Among women |
| who smoke a pack a day or more, smoking causes 40% of all spontaneous abortions. |
| American Journal of Public Health, January 1992, p. 85 |
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| Maternal smoking increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death by |
| 25 to 35%. This represents an annual loss of almost 5000 fetuses and newborn |
| infants in England. |
| Thorax, August 1994, p. 731 |
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| In a study from Australia, three or more miscarriages were reported by 7.4% of current |
| smokers, 5.3% of former smokers, and 3.7% of never smokers in a survey of 14,000 |
| women ages 45 to 49. Among the same number of women ages 18 to 22, one or two |
| miscarriages were reported by 6.2% of current smokers, 4.7% of former smokers, |
| and only 1.4% of never smokers. |
| Abstract OS 79, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 |
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| In 1980, about a quarter of women smoked regularly during pregnancies. This means |
| that of the 3.6 million women who delivered in 1980, approximately 900,000 women |
| smoked during pregnancy. Because maternal smoking during pregnancy increases |
| the number of "spontaneous" abortions by approximately five abortions per hundred |
| pregnancies, such smoking by nearly one million women in the United States may |
| have caused approximately 50,000 abortions in 1980. |
| American Journal of Preventive Medicine, April 1985, p. 13 |
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