doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000001193
Article type: Original Research
1 July 1978
Volume 3 Issue 1
doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000001193
Article type: Original Research
1 July 1978
Volume 3 Issue 1
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Some comments on the effects on the development child of material smoking during pregnancy
Max Boyce1
Affiliations
1 Child Studies, Toorak State College, Melbourne
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Max Boyce -
Max Boyce1
Affiliations
1 Child Studies, Toorak State College, Melbourne
CITATION: Boyce M. (1978). Some comments on the effects on the development child of material smoking during pregnancy. Children Australia, 3(1), 157. doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000001193
Abstract
Until the late 1960's the most popular advice literature for expectant mothers did not concern itself with advice on smoking. However, since the turn of the decade there have been increasing exhortations against smoking during pregnancy. For example, the Health Education Council (U.K.) has produced a pamphlet which commences: “When a pregnant woman smokes she puts her unborn baby's life at risk. Every time she inhales, she poisons her baby's bloodstream with nicotine and carbon monoxide.” Why have there been these increasing exhortations, and what is the evidence?