This handout image, released on November 10, 2010 depicts a mother blowing cigarette smoke in a child's face in one of the Federal Drug Administration's proposed new "graphic health warnings." ...

The more mom smokes, the less oxygen that mom and baby get. Baby needs that oxygen to grow. Smoking can harm the placenta causing problems with getting nutrients to the baby.

Overall, smoking before pregnancy raised a newborn's risk of more than one neonatal health problem by 27%, while smoking during pregnancy increased the baby's risk by 31% to 32%, researchers found.

A York has described how she quit smoking during pregnancy with support from a health trainer, and went on to give birth to a ...

Smoking harms almost every part of your body. But if you smoke when pregnant, the toxic chemicals in tobacco will also harm your unborn baby, with new research showing that it could lead to reduced ...