Chances of Cancer to Child on Pregnant Smokers

Melbourne Austrialia: Latest research has found that babies born from smoking mothers were getting a higher risk to cancer. Australia's New South Wales Cancer institute found out that babies from a smoking mother during pregnancy most likely get cancer five times more than a non smoker mother.

Those babies will also have a lower birth weight, born prematurely and most likely be admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit for various examinations.

Jim Bishop from the institute said it is not known yet whether smoking is the direct cause of the cancers.

"We've not yet made the direct link between pregnancy and smoking and those poor outcomes leading to childhood cancers," he was quoted as saying in an ABC report.

"But it's clear that we can do something about those complications and that is not to smoke during pregnancy," he added.

The Minister for Medical Research, Jodi McKay, said while more definitive research needs to be done, it is clear pregnant women should not smoke.

"There is a risk of childhood cancer," she said. "We are yet to define that link, but the risk is there and we need to warn mothers about that," she added.

The bottomline is simply stop smoking whether there is the risk or not. We have been warned that cigarette smoking is dangerous to our health. If we have no concerned with our health just don't share the risk to the innocent children.