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pregnant women should quit smoking to protect their babies from a wide range of health problems.
• Colleen Winter, state director of health and medical services, says nearly 20 percent of South Dakota's expectant women smoked during their pregnancies in 2010.
• Winter says smoking by a pregnant woman increases her child's risk for problems such as abnormal blood pressure, cleft palates, leukemia, colic, respiratory disorders and eye problems. She says the mortality rate for infants of mothers who smoke is much higher than the mortality rate among infants of non-smoking mothers.
• Winter says women who smoke can celebrate Mother's Day by quitting.
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