Cigarette smoke link to facial birth defect confirmed

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 16:56 in Health & Medicine

Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may be more than twice as likely to have a cleft palate or lip that requires medical care, according to researchers who measured exposure to smoke.

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