Don’t forget your baby’s health if you smoke!
A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center found a carcinogen from tobacco in the urine of babies whose parents smoke.
The study collected urine samples from 144 babies less than a year old. They found NNAL - 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol - in 47% of the samples. NNAL is a cancer-causing substance made when the body processes NNK. NNK is a carcinogen found in tobacco.
The babies that had NNAL in their urine had family that smoked around 76 cigarettes a week and resulted in the babies having NNAL levels near those of adults that smoke.
The results of this study can be found in the May issue of the journal ‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention’.
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on June 1st, 2006 at 7:58 pm
How sad. The minute we decided to try for a family, I stopped smoking. It had to be one of the hardest things I ever did, but I don’t regret it for a second. I don’t even want to think about the long term effects for those babies.
on June 4th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
And not only do the babies have problems with breathing in the second hand smoke - parents who smoke will likely die younger leaving their kids without parents at an earlier age - so they suffer from it even years later. Since you stopped smoking, you will live longer and have more time to spend with your kids once they are adults.
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