02 July 2019 02 Jul 2019

Smoking and pregnancy

The adverse effects of smoking in pregnancy include miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and birth defects (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2015) According to NHS Digital (2018), around 11% of pregnant women in England were known smokers at the time of giving birth in 2017/18, down from 16% in 2006/07