Relation Between Maternal Smoking and Children’s Low Birth Weight

Abstract

Maternal smoking has always been associated with a variety of different diseases some of which are Alzheimer’s, many forms of cancer and also depression and low BMI at birth. This report will primarily aim to discus the association between maternal smoking on their children’s low birth weight chances, and secondarily it will also discuss it here in Libya although this isn’t a major problem for us here in Libya because there aren’t many first hand Libyan mother smokers but a large percentage of Libyan fathers smoke in the same place as their wives so the mothers are considered second hand smokers, and second smoking is believed to be as bad or worse from first hand smoking. So this report will try to discuss how second hand smoking for Libyan mothers can lead to the giving birth to low birth weight children