Smoking cigarettes once was a very popular trend that is
slowly becoming less popular, but people who do smoke have a hard time stopping
even if it is affecting their unborn baby. Some mothers to be do not understand the issue
at hand when smoking while pregnant. Not
only does smoking and the use of nicotine hurt the baby’s growth and
development, but it also may affect their child’s future. Too many mothers
today make poor life choices their child’s health and livelihood. Studies have
shown that mothers the smoke cigarettes while pregnant may cause their unborn
child troubles with drug experimentation or even drug abuse, a high chance of
having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and externalizing behavior in their
adolescence years. ( Lotfipour, p.1 ) In this study the children that were born
from mothers that smoked grew up and were reported to had started experimenting
with drugs in their adolescent years the sex of the offspring did make a
different when it came down to influence associations between PEMCS (defined as
having a history of exposure of one or more cigarette per day during the second
trimester of pregnancy) and the brain. ( Lotfipour, p.3) Along with smoking in pregnancy
using alcohol also has the effect of the possibility of the child to be more
likely to abuse substances. Most
accounts of these children were seen to be from lower income families and were associated
with greater externalizing behavior. Figures show that alcohol use during pregnancy
is shown to have a higher number of drugs tried by the adolescent of the mother
who drank alcohol while pregnant. With
all this being said it is safe to say that everyone should stay away from
smoking and drinking but most importantly pregnant mothers. 
Lotfipour, S.,
Ferguson, E., Leonard, G., Miettunen, J., Perron, M., Pike, G. B., Richer, L.,
Séguin, J. R., Veillette, S., Jarvelin, M.-R., Moilanen, I., Mäki, P.,
Nordström, T., Pausova, Z., Veijola, J. and Paus, T. (2014), Maternal cigarette
smoking during pregnancy predicts drug use via externalizing behavior in two
community-based samples of adolescents. Addiction, 109: 1718–1729. doi:
10.1111/add.12665
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