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Pregnant smokers may 'program' their kids to become smokers

Pregnant smokers may "program" their children to become smokers, suggests research published in Tobacco Control.The authors base their findings on over 3,000 mothers and their children, who were part of a long term pregnancy study in Brisbane, Australia (MUSP) in 1981.

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