| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 14 Pregnancy and fertility |
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| Pregnancy and fertility: Smoking and Low Birth Weight |
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| In the 1980's, maternal smoking contributed to 17% to 26% of low birth weight babies |
| born in the United States. The mean average excess medical cost per live birth for |
| each pregnant smoker was $511 (in 1995 dollars); direct medical expenditures on low |
| birth weight babies from maternal smoking are $263 million per year. An annual drop |
| of one percentage point in smoking prevalence in pregnant women over seven years |
| would prevent 57,200 low birth weight infants and save $572 million in direct medical costs. |
| Pediatrics, December 1999, pp. 1312-1320 |
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| Passive smoke exposure in nonsmoking pregnant women doubles the risk for a mother delivering a small for gestational age baby. |
| American Journal of Public Health, October 1998, p. 1523 |
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| In 1997, 13.2% of women giving birth said that they had smoked during their |
| pregnancy. 20 to 30% of low birth weight cases in babies are attributable to smoking during pregnancy. |
| Reuters, May 27, 1999 |
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