At smoking mothers are born criminals

Smoking pregnant women offenders multiply like the researchers found. If during pregnancy the child was exposed to tobacco smoke, in the future it is more than the rest of peers at risk of becoming perpetrators.

Expectant mothers who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day, as it turned out, make of their children repeat offenders. A study by experts from the US study shows that the risk of these children subsequently become repeat infringer of the law grows at 30%. These studies are published in the journal Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Americans learned this statistic, watching the four thousand children born in the period from 1959 to 1966. Their mothers were asked a number of questions, including the attitude to smoking. In 1999-2000, when the children were not less than 33 years, researchers have carefully studied their criminal records.

The result was obtained irrefutable evidence that nicotine affects the fetation . However, the same one hundred percent evidence that female smoking   directly related to the bad deeds of children, yet could not be obtained. However, this relationship discern very noticeable.

"Smoking harms not only the health of the woman, but also fetal development - Says Professor James Walker, Vice-President of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UK. - Risks include underweight newborn, premature birth and stillbirth. If the mother smokes in the family, most of all, smoking and dad, so that the baby gets a dose of the toxic smoke and after its birth in the double size. We must do everything we can to inform young   women smokers   of the risks that entails a cigarette. "

Pregnancy and Gynecology

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