Ég var að vinna á kaffihúsinu um daginn og þar kom inn
ólétt kona. Það er í sjálfu sér allt í lagi þangað til hún
settist niður við reykingaborð, tók upp sígarettupakka og byrjaði
að reykja! Veit hún ekkert?!?!? Það er vísindalega sannað að fóstur
herpast saman af sársauka í hvert sinn sem móðirin tekur smók!
AAAAAARRRRRG! Það er fátt sem gerir mig jafn reiða og konur sem
reykja á meðgöngu 
Sumir vilja kannski meina að það sé allt í lagi að reykja á
meðgöngu en hér eru nokkrar staðreyndir um hvað gerist
ef konur reykja á meðgöngu:
Babies born to mothers who smoke:
- are
more likely to be born prematurely and with a low birth weight
(below 2.5kg or 5lb 8oz).
- have
a birth weight on average 200g (7oz) less than those born to
non-smokers. This effect increases proportionally - the more the
mother smokes, the less the child weighs.
- have
organs that are smaller on average than babies born to
non-smokers.
- have
poorer lung function.
- are
twice as likely to die from cot death (vöggudauði). There seems to
be a direct link between cot death and parents smoking.
- are
ill more frequently. Babies born to women who smoked 15 cigarettes
or more a day during pregnancy are taken into hospital twice as
often during the first eight months of life.
- get
painful diseases such as inflammation of the middle ear and
asthmatic bronchitis more frequently in early childhood.
- are
more likely to become smokers themselves in later years.
- In
addition, pregnant women who smoke increase their risk of early
miscarriage.
- In later
pregnancy, smoking mothers are at increased risk of the baby's
placenta (fylgjan) coming away from the womb before the baby
is born (placental abruption). This may cause the baby to be born
prematurely, starve of oxygen, or even to die in the womb
(stillborn).
En nú er ég hætt að æsa
mig...
...eigiði góðan dag 