Prevención de la exposición al tabaco y a la nicotina durante el embarazo: una prioridad para mejorar la salud perinatal y resultados maternos.

Tabaquismo durante el embarazo:
Una variedad de resultados
adversos para la salud del feto

The World Health Organziation (WHO) considers tobacco to be one of the main causes of preventable chronic disease and death around the world

Smoking or using tobacco in any form is deadly serious. Globally, many people smoke. It is unacceptable that many pregnant women are exposed to tobacco

Environmental smoke exposure (ESE) from tobacco products is a growing problem in crowded urban communities, especially countries such as Colombia

Although the prevalence of tobacco use is decreasing in many high-income countries, it is increasing in many low- and middle- income countries

To evaluate the effect of a smoking cessation intervention, based on best practice guidelines on the quit rates of disadvantaged, pregnant women in Cape Town, South Africa

Although cigarette smoking remains the most prevalent form of tobacco use in girls and in women of reproductive age globally, use of non-cigarette forms of tobacco is prevalent or gaining in popularity in many parts of the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries

Tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) are widely viewed as serious threats to the health of pregnant women, infants, and children around the world