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Smoking and reproduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Patricia EAM Mercelina-Roumans ,
JMH Ubachs  and
JWJ van Wersch
Patricia EAM Mercelina-Roumans
Affiliation:
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Haematology, De wever Hospital, Heerlen, The Netherlands
JMH Ubachs
Affiliation:
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Haematology, De wever Hospital, Heerlen, The Netherlands
JWJ van Wersch*
Affiliation:
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Haematology, De wever Hospital, Heerlen, The Netherlands
*
Dr JWJ van Wersch, Departments of Haematology, De Wever Hospital, PO Box 4446, 6401 CX Heerlen, The Netherlands
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In the Netherlands, approximately 30% of all women of reproductive age smoke, compared with 36% of men.

Cigarette smoking is associated in women with a dose-related reduction in fecundity and fertility and in men with a reduction in semen quality. Smoking has a negative effect on pregnancy: increased rates of antepartum bleeding and placenta praevia have been described. Smoking is also associated with increases in the rates of spontaneous abortion, low birth weight and perinatal death. Some tobacco-related perinatal deaths are due to an increased risk of serious malformation. Children of mothers who smoke are admitted twice as often to hospital for pulmonary problems. However, studies on maternal smoking and childhood cancer have proved inconclusive.

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Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1994 , pp. 135 - 141
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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