This change in gene expression due to secondhand smoke exposure may make children more vulnerable to disease as adults.

There's bad news for java junkies ... published in the July issue of Human Reproduction, smoking has a devastating effect on pregnancy rates of women undergoing fertility treatment.

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences for ...

Smoking is associated with well-documented threats to health and well being. Pregnancy presents an unusually important time to initiate smoking cessation strategies because of the motivation of ...

For every 100 pregnant persons who received financial incentives, 13 were likely to successfully quit smoking at six months or longer, compared to six in 100 who did not receive financial incentives.

“We know that smoking while pregnant can be really harmful to both the parent and the fetus,” Hartmann-Boyce said. “And people are more cautious in pregnancy about using a lot of the pharmacological ...

McLeod Public Health Glencoe Regional Health Services, Hutchinson Area Health Care and Hutchinson Medical Center have recently gone to totally tobacco-free campuses. Ridgewater College in ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers are better able to quit if they’re offered financial incentives for their efforts. Overall, smokers had up to a 54% better chance at kicking ...