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Stop smoking mommy!
Baby's Brain: Up in smoke
As if you did'nt have enough reason to stop smoking, here's another: second hand smoker can lower your child's IQ.
Researches at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, measured level of cotinine, a breakdown product of nicotine, in the blood of 4399 children and compared this with scores in intelligence tests. Even allowing for other factors, a cotinine level corresponding to very low levels of second-hand smoke had an impact on children's reading and reasoning skills.
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