Pregnant women using nicotine patches and gum harm their unborn babies

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* How Maternal Smoking or Nicotine Use Increases the Risk of

Cardiovascular Disease in Later Life

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ne_Use_Increases_the_Risk_of_Cardiovascular_Diseas.html>

* Published on Jul 21, 2011

Scientists now understand more about why being exposed to nicotine while

you were a fetus increases your risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

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Mothers on nicotine gum 'put unborn babies at risk.'

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abies-risk.html>

Pregnant women using nicotine patches and gum to help kick their smoking

habit are harming their unborn babies, scientists claim. They say the

addictive substance is absorbed by the foetus and this can cause high

blood pressure and heart problems later in life.