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What are the effects of smoking on pregnant women?

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Some of the chemicals of the smoke will passs over into the unborn child, causing it to be born with a lower weight than if the mother hadn't been smoking. There are suspicions of other effects too, but low birth weight is the one that's easiest to prove.

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