Women smokers are at higher risk of having an ectopic or tubal pregnancy, according to a recent study. In women who smoked around the time of conception this risk was found to be three and a half times greater. One possible explanation is that the chemicals in cigarettes hinder the effectiveness of cilia, which sweep the egg from the ovary down the fallopian tube to the uterus.
-Pregnancy & Birth, October 1998
Reprinted from Midwifery Today E-News (Vol 1 Issue 49, Dec 3, 1999)
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