Family:Children of pregnant smokers

Before lighting up a cigarette, a future mom has to know how smoking affects her baby. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4000 nasty chemicals including 60 cancer causing compounds.
 Nicotine and carbon monoxide are two components that  may reduce the baby's supply of oxygen.Smoking during pregnancy also doubles the chances that a baby will be born too early or with a low weight usually less than 2 kg at birth. A smoking mother also doubles the risk of stillbirth to her baby.
Every cigarette you smoke increases the risk of miscarriage.Your baby tends to have an underdeveloped body. Its lungs may not be ready to work on their own at birth which obliges your baby to spend its first days or even weeks attached to a respirator. Later your baby may have continuing breathing problems and be especially vulnerable to asthma and have double or even triple the risk of sudden death.
Smoking during pregnancy can have lifelong effects on your baby's brain too. Children of pregnant smokers may also have learning disorders, behavioral problems and risk to become addicted to cigarettes when they grow up