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ERS: How Much Smoking is Too Much Smoking for Pregnant Women? 

VIENNA, AUSTRIA -- October 2, 2003 -- There is significantly more damage to infants whose mothers smoked more than 10 cigarettes per day compared with those who smoked fewer than 10 per day, according to a recent study by British investigators.

In a poster presentation here on September 29th at the 13th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society, Bulend Yuksel, MD, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals, London, United Kingdom, pointed out that no amount of smoking is safe during pregnancy, but there is a significant linear increase in the potential damage that is done according to how much the expectant mother smokes.

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