Is passive smoke dangerous in pregnancy?

Question

How much the smoke can effect. If someone is smoking on the table next to me how much harmful it is? I cant avoid being exposed to smoke at all.

Answer 1

Is passive smoke dangerous in pregnancy?

I think you know the answer to this already.

2nd hand smoke you could say is worse then smoking yourself, as it isn't filtered like if you were to smoke it yourself. But any form of smoke is bad to an unborn child, as well as children.

What is more important to you? I would think it would be the health of your unborn child.

If your exposed to smoke at work, either ask your boss if you can work elsewhere, where there is no smoke or less of it, or maybe find another job.
If you're exposed to it home, ask the people who smoke if they can do it outdoors .... surely there is a way around it for you????

Best of luck.

Answer 2

Effect of passive smoke during pregnancy...

The researchers from the study concluded that heavy smoking by the father increased the risk of early pregnancy loss. They suggest that this is either due to exposure of the male sperm to the effects of smoking, or due to the mother being exposed to the effects of passive smoking.

Why does smoking raise the risk of miscarriage?
The researchers believe that smoking by the father could damage the chromosomes in his sperm, making the sperm less likely to produce viable babies. Also the researchers think that the father's cigarette smoke is inhaled passively by the mother and this can affect the developing fetus. It is thought that tobacco smoke may alter a pregnant woman's levels of female sex hormones and that it may reduce the amount of blood that flows through the placenta and nourishes the baby.

Answer 3

Passive smoking effects everyone not just pregnant people it isn't good at all especially for a lil baby but unfortunately lots of people smoke and unless you stop going out in public you can't prevent it you'll just have to move away if someone has a cigarette in there hand

Answer 4

Yes, its actually alot worse than smoking yourself, because if you smoke you have a filter, but if you are around someone who smokes you are getting the full affect. It is more than likely you cannot avoid smoke all together, but if its possible to re route your trip, and get away from the smoke do so. It could hurt your baby if your exposed to alot of it, in a constant manner, but just passing by, you should be ok. Avoid it all you can though

Answer 5

Depends on how much smoke you are inhaling.
Cigarette smoke is not cyanide, u know...
I think its best to avoid worst passive smoking places during pregnancy, and even after the pregnancy, to preserve your own health.
Smoking is always bad for your health, no matter if its passive or active.

Answer 6

At the time of this writing, every answer you received gave a clear response that it is dangerous to the health of your unborn child.

However I am going to take this uninamous verdict one step further in 2 ways.

1) Every health professional on the planet that is not being paid by the cigarette manufacturers will tell you that passive smoke inhaled by a preganant person is going to harm your child.

2) The effects of passive smoking on the inhaler are proven to be more than 40% as damaging as the person smoking, which means for every 2 cigarettes they smoke your smoking at least 1, but it can be MORE THAN the equivalent of 3 for their 1.

Your distance from the source, the wind direction, ventilation, any filtration you may have over your nose and mouth, and the type of cigarettes being smoked all have varying effects on what you inhale (in that order from most effective to least effective defence, although I might have left out 1 or 2).

In other words, every cigarette someone else smokes is doing both you and your baby damage, and for a rapidly increasing number of people globally, that damage is highly debilitating, disabling and quickly fatal.

And although there is no scientific evidence to prove this next statement, in every case the amount of physical pain caused by these sticks of poison increases exponentially. I don't think there has ever been a less desireable way to die than to be in constantly excrutiating pain for years, which gradually leads to episodes of unconsciousness due to the body shutting down from overload of pain and it's organs malfunctioning. Only to have that same pain be what wakes you up, and to try and sleep in that much pain. Then one day part of your lung collapses and begins to fill your throat and lungs with blood and vomit, and you choke to death. The last thing you remember is the same feeling you felt when your heart failed a year before: 10000 volts of electric current flowing through you.

Now imagine a life where all of this was experienced before the age of 5. That is what you are promising your unborn child if you continue to allow the people closest to you to smoke their death sticks near you.

I'm not a religious person. I'm not Catholic, Christan, Jewish, Islamic, Athiest, or any other catagory, but for special cases I will speak in that language. You are one of those cases, and you sound like you really need it, so here goes.

I pray to our God, oh Heavenly Father, that should you find cause to give this woman the courage to tell those she loves that smoking near her is unacceptable, dangerous, and potentially fatal, I promise to always seek to feel compassion and empathy for those that I find infuriating, annoying and irritating when they smoke near me.
May God bless your soul. Amen.

"It is hard to stand up to your enemies. But it takes a person of exceptional courage to stand up to their friends." - Professor Dumbledor (Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone)

Answer 7

If someone is smoking near you it is as if you are smoking yourself. Second hand smoke is more dangerous than first hand b/c it contains high levels of carbon monoxide. Best to stick to non-smoking situations as much as possible especially after the baby is born.

Answer 8

Unfortunately yes it is dangerous. I was a smoker myself but quit. I do not go into any restaurants that have smoking in them and stay away from my father in laws house because he smokes and I want to protect the child growing in me. If they come over they must go outside to smoke and that is it. If your hubby, boyfriend or partner smokes ask them to go outside to protect the child inside of you.

Answer 9

It is just as bad as you smoking yourself .. how can you not avoid it?? surley you could move away from the smoke , or the people around you would at least be conisderate enough not to smoke near you while your pregnant.

Answer 10

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