General Article Fewer premature births due to smoking ban

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Findings reported in the British Medical Journal from a study of 600,000 births found three successive drops in babies born before 37 weeks.

Each occurred after a public smoking ban was introduced but there was no such trend in the period before the bans were put in place.

The latest study was ...

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