Smoking cigarettes is bad for you, especially when you’re pregnant. The smoke from the cigarette contains more than 4,000 chemicals; including truly nasty things like propylene glycol, toluene, arsenic, butane, acetone, cadmium, lead, and ammonia.
A shortage of oxygen can have devastating effects on your baby’s growth and development. On average, smoking during pregnancy doubles the chances that a baby will be born too early or weigh less than 4 pounds at birth. Undersize babies tend to have underdeveloped bodies. Their lungs may not be ready to work on their own, which means they may spend their first days or weeks attached to a respirator. Babies whose mother smoked in the first trimester of pregnancy are more likely to have a heart defect at birth, and can have lifelong effects on baby’s brain too.
"How Smoking during Pregnancy Affects You and Your Baby | BabyCenter." BabyCenter | Homepage - Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler, Kids. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. <http://www.babycenter.com/0_how-smoking-during-pregnancy-affects-you-and-your-baby_1405720.bc>.
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