The most recent Statistics on Womens Smoking Status at Time of Delivery shows that 7.4% of women in England were known to be smokers at the end of their pregnancy in 2023-24 down on last year, when the rate was 8.8%
Our work shows that we should be making every effort to prevent smoking initiation and encourage smoking cessation because of the consequences to mental health as well as physical health. Marcus Munaf, Professor of Biological Psychology in Bristols School of Psychological Science and senior author on the study, added: The increasing availability of genetic data in large studies, together with the identification of genetic variants associated with a range of behaviours and health outcomes, is transforming our ability to use techniques such as Mendelian randomisation to understand causal pathways
Most of us have seen the TV commercials by anti-smoking organizations that remind us how much damage and harm smoking causes our bodies
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