Smoking While Pregnant Is Crazy, But Science Just Found What Really Causes The Damage

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It's common knowledge that mothers should not smoke while pregnant. But the actual mechanism behind what is going on in the womb is, surprisingly, not well understood.

New research changes that, finding that a major reason unborn babies are harmed by smoking is due to free radicals and unwanted molecules moving around the mother's body.