patricia brennan

The Smoking Gun

Medicine and sociology: More bad news about mama's butts.

Everyone knows that expectant moms who smoke risk damaging their babies' physical health. New evidence from a Danish study shows that smoking can also harm babies emotionally. Patricia Brennan of Atlanta's Emory University has found that the more cigarettes a woman smokes in the third trimester of pregnancy, the more likely her children are to be arrested for a crime or hospitalized for substance abuse.

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