제  목 : Smoking and Pregnancy
  일  자 : 1998년 09월
  제공처 : Internet

           Smoking and Pregnancy
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                      Office on Smoking and Health - (770) 488 5493
                      Division of Media Relations - (404) 639-3286

     Smoking can cause significant damage to women's reproductive
     system. An estimated 27.2 percent of reproductive aged women smoke
     cigarettes -- that equates to more than 14 million women ages 18-44
     that are smokers. This is more than double the Healthy People 2000
     goal to reduce prevalence for reproductive age women to 12 percent.
     If current trends continue, smoking will have a tremendous health
     impact on smoking mothers and their unborn or born children. In
     addition, smoking-related pregnancy complications will cause a
     dramatic cost burden to the nation's health care system.

 ㅇ  Women who smoke during pregnancy are at risk for premature
     birth, pregnancy complications, low-birthweight infants,
     stillbirth, and a higher rate of infant mortality.
 ㅇ  For pregnant women and new mothers, smoking puts their baby at
     risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), poor lung
     development, asthma, and respiratory infections.
 ㅇ  In 1987 dollars, the estimated medical cost of a complicated
     birth for smokers was nearly twice ($10,894) that of
     non-smokers ($6,544).
 ㅇ  Extrapolated to the nation, estimated smoking attributable
     medical costs for those with complicated births was $791
     million, or 11% of total costs for all complicated births, in
     1987 dollars and based on an assumed prevalence of smoking of
     19%.
 ㅇ  Updated to 1995, estimated smoking attributable costs for
     those with complicated births, based on an assumed prevalence
     of smoking during pregnancy of 19%, was $1.4 billion in 1995
     dollars.
 ㅇ  In 1995, approximately 14 percent of women smoked during
     pregnancy down 5 percent from 1994 and 29 percent since 1989.
 ㅇ  Despite the decline, smoking prevalence among pregnant women
     still exceed the Healthy People 2000 objective to reduce
     smoking by pregnant women to 10 percent.
 ㅇ  A goal of Healthy People 2000 is to increase smoking cessation
     and maintain abstinence during pregnancy to 60 percent.
 ㅇ  Another Healthy People 2000 objective is to increase cessation
     counseling and follow-up by clinicians to 75 percent.
 ㅇ  There is a significant health benefit for women who quit
     smoking during pregnancy. Low birthweight could be reduced by
     17-26 percent by eliminating smoking during pregnancy.

     For more information about quitting, contact the local chapter of
     the American Heart Association, American Lung Association, or
     American Cancer Society. Also, visit CDC's website at
     http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco.

     National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
     Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
     Office of Communication
     Division of Media Relations
     Atlanta, GA