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“Tobacco smoke has been found to have a detrimental effect on the foetus when pregnant women are under the effect of it”.

 
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As shown in a study carried out by researchers at 13 research centres in Asturias, Gipuzkoa, Sabadell and Valencia, over half of non-smoking pregnant women, 55%, are passive smokers.These women are under the effect of tobacco smoke to a considerable extent because a member of the household, their partner in particular, smokes at home.The result of the study has been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
 

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Within the INMA project that studies childhood and the environment, research has been carried out into the extent to which non-smoking pregnant women from Asturias, Gipuzkoa, Sabadell and Valencia are exposed to tobacco smoke.To find out about tobacco exposure, researchers based themselves on urine samples collected during the medical check-up in the third trimester of pregnancy, and on the responses the women gave to a set of questions.They studied 1,783 women after rejecting another 480 who had displayed signs of being smokers according to their urine samples and the results of the surveys.

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