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Ananova:

Smoking's asthma timebomb

Women who smoke during pregnancy could be creating an asthma timebomb for their grandchildren.

A new US study has found that a child whose grandmother smoked when pregnant has double the risk of asthma.

A team at the University of Southern California studied the health of 1,000 children under the age of ten.

They found that if a mum smoked when pregnant, her children were 1.5 times more likely to develop asthma by the age of five.

But if the gran smoked, they were twice as likely to suffer.

If both mother and grandmother smoked, the risk was 2.5 times greater.

The study, published in medical journal Chest, is the first to probe effects on different generations.

Dr Frank Gilliland said: "This is the first study to show that if a woman smokes while pregnant both her children and grandchildren may be more likely to have asthma.

"Smoking could have a long-term impact on a family's health that's never before been realised."


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