Babies tobacco

True. Nicotine, carbon monoxide and other harmful chemicals from the burning tobacco travel in the mother s bloodstream and can reach the foetus. This can result in impaired development and reduced birth weight. Tobacco smoke can also be harmful to young children and babies (sudden infant death syndrome). 

The diversity of size and form of babies bom even after normal pregnancy is remarkable. However, this is not only due to genetic variation but to the behaviour and nutrition of the mother adequate nutrition, macro- plus micronutrients, plus the essential fatty acids, essential amino acids and the conditionally essential amino acids. Too high an intake of alcohol and smoking tobacco are known to affect the size of the baby with, in some cases, a reduction in the nnmber of cells in particular tissues/organs. 

NDMA has been detected in ambient air, water and soil however, monitoring data are rather scant. Low levels of NDMA (measurable in terms of ppb) are commonly found in the air of car interiors, food, malt beverages (beer, whiskey), toiletry and cosmetic products, rubber baby bottle nipples and pacifiers, tobacco products and tobacco smoke, pesticides used in agriculture, hospitals, and homes, and sewage sludge. 

Pacifiers, rubber Pads, kneeling rubber Pants, baby vulcanized rubber and rubberized fabric— mitse Pillows, sponge rubber Pipe stems and bits, tobacco hard rubber... 

Smugglers carrying tobacco next to the skin have been poisoned by the nicotine absorbed. Children have been poisoned through being allowed to play with old tobacco pipes, and a, 5-month-old baby by milk into which tobacco had been dropped by accident (63). 

Toxins, either inhaled or ingested, can also reach the fetus. Large molecules in tobacco smoke damage the placenta, and this hampers the ability to convey nntrients from the mother to the baby. As a consequence, babies bom to smokers, or to nonsmokers living in polluted air, are on average, a half-pound lighter than babies bom to mothers breathing nonpolluted air. 

Srinivasan, C, Liu, Z., Heidmann, I., Supena, E.D.J., Fukuoka H., Joosen, R., Lambalk, J., Angenent, G., Scorza, R., Custers, J.B.M. Boutilier, K. (2007) Heterologous expression of the BABY BOOM AP2/ERF transcription factor enhances the regeneration capacity of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Planta, 225 341-351... 

N-Nitrosamines are widely distributed in various human environments. The concern was initially focused on their widespread occurrence in food and consumer products, as beer, meats cured with nitrite, smoked fish, tobacco and tobacco smoke, rubber products including baby bottle nipples and pacifiers, cosmetics, drug formulations, or herbicides formulations. Much data of their occurrence have been obtained by inadequate analytical methods and must await confirmation. Considerable progress has been made in the development of adequate and specific methods for trace analysis of nitrosamines, and reliable information is expected in the near future. 

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