Jump to full article: New York Post, 2008-03-26
Author: JEREMY OLSHAN
Intro: Even when they're knocked up, Staten Island's Marlboro moms refuse to put their cigarettes down, according to disturbing figures the city released yesterday.
Ignoring common sense - and the advice of doctors - 19 percent of expectant Staten Island mothers admitted to smoking through their third trimester, compared with the 5 percent of pregnant women who smoke in the other four boroughs, city health officials said.
The city's smoking ban and gross-out ad campaigns have managed to reduce smoking everywhere but Staten Island, said Deputy Health Commissioner Mary Bassett.
As of 2006, the smoking rate dropped 20 percent from what it was in 2002, but Staten Island's smoking rate has stubbornly remained high.
A new wave of ads will be targeted specifically at Staten Islanders in the hopes that smokers are convinced to quit.
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