Does smoking during pregnancy cause birth deformities?
Researchers found that almost 5,200 babies born to women who smoked had deformed fingers or toes. Just half a pack a day increases the risk of your baby being born with an extra, missing or webbed fingers or toes by nearly 30 percent. The above statistics came from the journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Most importantly smoking also interferes with the oxygen delivery to cells at key moments in the development stages and this happens when the cells are not able to proliferate the way they should and result in limb deformities.For more related questions and answers please log on to: http://smokingharms.
