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References used for this fact sheet
- Cigarette smoking among women in Australia (February 2002), National Tobacco Strategy 1999 to 2002-03, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, ACT, Australia. Contact the Department of Health and Ageing for more information.
- Holmes, D. (1998), Tobacco - effects during pregnancy, in Alcohol, other drugs and pregnancy [online publication], Reconnexion, Australia. Available via Australian Drug Foundation website. More information here.
- Walsh, R. A., Lowe, J. B., & Hopkins, P. J. (2001), Quitting smoking in pregnancy [online], in Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), vol 2001, issue 175, pp 320-323, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Proprietary Limited (AMPCo), Australia. More information here.
- Abnormal development – smoking [online], University of New South Wales Embryology. More information here.
- Hofhuis W, et al. (2003), ‘Adverse health effects of prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure on children’, in Arch Dis Child, vol. 88, pp1086-90 More information here.
- Ortega RM, et al. (1998), ‘The influence of smoking on vitamin C status during the third trimester of pregnancy and on vitamin C levels in maternal milk’ in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, vol. 17, pp. 379-84. More information here.
- Quitting smoking in pregnancy [online], Medical Journal of Australia. More information here.
- Smoking and pregnancy [online], Medical Online. More information here.
- The health consequences of smoking: a report of the Surgeon General (2004) [online], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. More information here.
- Women and smoking: a report of the Surgeon General (2001) [online], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Surgeon General. More information here.
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