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In Missouri, 23% of married pregnant women but 41% of unmarried pregnant women

were smokers in a 1990 survey.

Public Health Reports, January 1991, p. 52

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43% of pregnant teenagers are smokers; 50% of pregnant teens in New Jersey

smoke.

American Journal of Public Health, December 1990, p. 1297, and New Jersey

Medicine, February 1988, p. 151

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In Washington State from 1984 through 1988, 31.7% of married pregnant teenagers

and 42.8% of unmarried pregnant teenagers smoked during their pregnancies. The

overall smoking prevalence for pregnant teens increased from 32% in 1984 to 37% in

1988.

American Journal of Diseases of Children, December 1990, p. 1297

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Women in the lowest age and socioeconomic categories have the highest likelihood

of smoking during pregnancy. Between 1974 and 1985, smoking declined five times

faster among college graduates compared with those with less than a high school

education.

American Journal of Public Health, May 1990, p. 544

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Tobacco's toxic elements accumulate in the fetuses of non-smoking pregnant women

who live with smokers. One baby in a study was exposed to so much secondhand

smoke that it was equivalent to the mother herself smoking five cigarettes a day.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 1994, p. A5

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