Annotated Bibliography 5

Tara Link

Haley Stokes

English 1010

April 7th

Annotated Bibliography 5

"The Exposure of Nonsmoking and Smoking Mothers to Environmental Tobacco Smoke during Different Gestational Phases and Fetal Growth.." Environmental Health Perspectives . 110.6 (2002): 601. Print.

SUMMARY

Examines the impact of maternal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke on birth weight (BW), low birth weight and intrauterine growth retardation. Categories of smoking habits; Use of multiple regression and logistic regression procedures; Reduction in the mean BW of infants in active smoking mothers.

REFLECTION

Exposure to tobacco is causally associated with health problems like cardiovascular and respitory illness, including lung cancer. The impact of passive smoking on other reproductive outcomes is less clear; an elevated risk of spontaneous abortion and sudden infant death syndrome as well as impaired female and male fertility.