We have talked a lot of times about the consequences that smoking may have on the baby during pregnancy.
But the risks do not end there, the extent of the harmfulness of tobacco reaches such a point that a woman is more at risk of having abortions if her parents were smokers.
That is, no matter how much she has not smoked in her life, the fact having been exposed as a child to the smoke of cigarettes her parents smoked influences her reproductive capacity.
This is stated by a study of the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan, according to which the risk of having a miscarriage tended to increase according to the parents' tobacco consumption, that is, the more they smoked, the greater the risk, which can reach up to 80%.
The explanation would be that tobacco smoke contains chemicals such as lead, benzene and cadmium, which could influence the reproductive system of girls in full development.
This shows that children who are passive smokers also suffer second-hand the consequences of long-term smoking.
It means, therefore, that it not only affects the development of the baby inside the womb, but that during childhood there are still changes in the organism that can be affected by tobacco.
Therefore, it is essential that, for the health of our children and that of our future grandchildren, that we protect children from cigarette smoke.
