In the USA, 20% of women aged under 25 years smoke during pregnancy, compared to 9% among those aged over 35
Smoking is dangerous for people who do it as well as for those around them
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The anti-smoking spots are dreadfully effective, a staff member of the Tobacco Institute remarked to me one day that summer, and a few days later a former executive of a major tobacco company who had just been removed from his organization as a result of a corporate merger, and was consequently feeling a bit disillusioned about the tobacco business, told me, The industry considers that the anti-smoking commercials, on top of the tremendous anti-smoking campaigns that have been mounted in the public schools by the Public Health Service and the various health organizations, and this on top of all the other unfavorable publicity about smoking, are really hurting
Similarly, cigarette smoke, specifically tobacco smoke particles and second-hand smoke particles, are small enough to travel through the lungs and be absorbed quickly into the bloodstream