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Jump to full article: Times Of London (uk), 2009-11-01
Author: Jan Battles
Intro: The number of mothers who admit smoking during pregnancy has fallen by nearly 12%, according to a study at the Coombe hospital, Dublin.
The proportion dropped from just over 23% to just under 21%, less than the smoking rate in the general population, which was 27% last year, but still higher than in other countries. In Massachusetts, America, for example, only 7% of pregnant women admit to smoking.
"When you compare the rates of smoking in pregnant women who attended the Coombe before and after the [smoking in public] ban, it's a significant reduction," said Luke Clancy, director-general of the Tobacco Free Research Institute (TFI).
"We are not saying the ban necessarily caused it, but we hope it influenced them . . .
The survey was published in BJOG, an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology.
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