Stay Smoke-Free Forever for Your Daughter's Sake

Protect your baby girl's fertility by not smoking

By Shari Roan, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, Pediatrics


If you've already quit smoking—good for you! Now here's a reason to stay off the cigarettes after you deliver: University of Michigan researchers discovered that women who were exposed to their parents' secondhand smoke during childhood had an 80 percent higher miscarriage risk compared with daughters of nonsmokers.

April/May 2008