The Dangers of Smoking While Pregnant There is no clear evidence that smoking prior to pregnancy will harm a developing fetus, but it is well documented that smoking during pregnancy is very harmful. It affects the baby’s development in utero. Babies of smoking mothers are not as healthy at birth as babies of nonsmoking mothers. Pregnant women who smoke need to quit and give their babies the chance they deserve to be healthy and …showed first 75 words of 1304 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1304 total…some cut back it’s still not enough; they need to quit and the government needs to help by making it illegal. To make smoking while pregnant illegal is not the hard part; it’s enforcing it. You can’t always tell when a woman is pregnant, so we can’t expect store employees to not sell cigarettes to them. But by making it illegal it would help to get more pregnant women to quit.