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Smoking, birth defects [1]

The first-ever comprehensive systematic review of all studies over the past 50 years has established clearly that maternal smoking causes a range of serious birth defects including heart defects, missing/deformed limbs, clubfoot, gastrointestinal disorders, and facial disorders (for example, of the eyes and cleft lip/palate).

Publication Date: 
14/07/2011
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Smoking [3], Maternal Health [4], Tobacco [5], Child Health [6], Women [7], Health Effects [8]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/smoking-birth-defects
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/smoking
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maternal-health
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tobacco
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/child-health
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects