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• Menopause: Smokers Have More Hot Flashes 

As expected, smokers in the study reported more hot flashes than women who did not smoke.

But smokers who also carried specific gene variations linked to estrogen metabolism and susceptibility to environmental toxins had the most hot flashes of all, says researcher and ob-gyn Samantha Butts, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

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Smoking during pregnancy may increase risk for autism in children 

Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network 

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Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to High-Functioning Autism  

Pregnant women who smoke may be at higher risk for having a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger’s disorder, according to preliminary study findings by researchers involved in the U.S. Autism Surveillance Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It has long been known that autism is an umbrella term for a wide range of disorders that impair social and communication skills,” says Amy Kalkbrenner, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, lead author of the study.

“What we are seeing is that some disorders on the autism spectrum, more than others, may be influenced by a factor such as whether a mother smokes during pregnancy.” . . .

The study is published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Source: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Smoking during pregnancy may increase risk of autism in children 

• Study explores links between smoking during pregnancy, autism 

Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger’s Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by researchers involved in the U.S. autism surveillance program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Amy Kalkbrenner, UWM Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health

“It has long been known that autism is an umbrella term for a wide range of disorders that impair social and communication skills,” says Amy Kalkbrenner, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, lead author of the study. “What we are seeing is that some disorders on the autism spectrum, more than others, may be influenced by a factor such as whether a mother smokes during pregnancy.”

The study was published April 25, 2012, in an advance online release by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Smoking during pregnancy is still common in the U.S. despite its known harmful impacts on babies. Kalkbrenner found that 13 percent of mothers whose children were included in the study had smoked during pregnancy.

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Body Mass Index, Exercise, and Other Lifestyle Factors in Relation to Age at Natural Menopause: Analyses From the Breakthrough Generations Study 

Lifestyle as Young Adult May Affect Age of Menopause  

• Menopause: Lifestyle affects when women go through the change as smokers have it two years earlier 

Drinking, smoking and carrying extra weight can all influence when a woman goes through the menopause, suggests a new study.

The lifestyle factors were all linked to when women stopped having periods, according to research from the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK.

Smoking made the largest impact with smokers experiencing the change an average two years earlier that those who didn't have the harmful habit.

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Women pay the price for smoking  

Pregnant? Don’t smoke. Period. End sentence.