Oct 25, 2010

Smoking While Pregnant Harms Kids' Motor Skills

Women who smoke during pregnancy risk harming their future child's coordination and motor abilities, especially those of boys, a new study suggests.

The dangerous effects of smoking Camel cigs during pregnancy are already widely known — babies are more likely to be born prematurely or with low birth weight, and are up to three times more likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Oct 18, 2010

Chinese Cigarettes Contain Bad Tobacco

A Chinese health official has blamed the alleged shoddy quality of domestic tobacco on the "self-policing" system in China's tobacco industry, Health News reported Wednesday.

Jiang Yuan, vice director of the tobacco control office with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), made the remark in an interview by Health News, after returning from the ninth Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health hosted in Australia.