Effect of Smoking on Breathing, Gas Exchange & Pregnancy
Title: Effect of Smoking on Breathing, Gas Exchange & Pregnancy
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 961 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Effect of Smoking on Breathing, Gas Exchange & Pregnancy
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 961 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tar
Tar is a sticky brown substance produced by cigarettes that can stain a smoker's fingers and teeth yellow/brown. It is also sometimes known as total particulate matter and is inhaled when a cigarette is smoked. Some of the chemicals in tar include benzene and benzo(a)pyrene.
Tobacco Smoke
Tobacco smoke contains many harmful gases that can be damaging to the body such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and acrolein.
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to mothers who are smokers are often underweight, resulting in many health problems. Women who smoke are also more likely to miscarry
A Child Whose Mother Smoked During Pregnancy
Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer respiratory illnesses including asthma. Smoking during pregnancy has also shown to affect the child's growth and intellectual ability; it will sometimes even affect the child's reproductive organs and cause them fertility problems in later life.