ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2014
Exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy as a risk factor for tobacco use in adult offspring.
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- Antenatal Maternal Smoking and Lung Function in Very Prematurely Born Children.Pediatric pulmonology · 2026Article
- Association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and smoking behaviors in adult offspring.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Cigarette Smoke During Breastfeeding in Rats Changes Glucocorticoid and Vitamin D Status in Obese Adult Offspring.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Perceived risks and reasons to smoke cigarettes during pregnancy among Alaska native women.Ethnicity & health · 2018Article
- Developing a Biomarker Feedback Intervention to Motivate Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: Phase II MAW Study.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Article
- Daughters of Mothers Who Smoke: A Population-based Cohort Study of Maternal Prenatal Tobacco use and Subsequent Prenatal Smoking in Offspring.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2017Article
- Smoking, physical exercise, BMI and late foetal death: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort.European journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
- Prenatal and Postnatal Maternal Trajectories of Cigarette Use Predict Adolescent Cigarette Use.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
- Geographic Variation in Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy in the Missouri Adolescent Female Twin Study (MOAFTS).PloS one · 2016Article
- Re: "Exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy as a risk factor for tobacco use in adult offspring".American journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
- In-utero exposure to maternal smoking is not linked to tobacco use in adulthood after controlling for genetic and family influences: a Swedish sibling study.European journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
- Invited commentary: Parental smoking as a risk factor for adult tobacco use: can maternal smoking during pregnancy be distinguished from the social environmental influence during childhood?American journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Nicotine from maternal smoking during pregnancy can cross the placental barrier, possibly resulting in fetal brain sensitization, as indicated by studies in which prenatal exposure to maternal smoking was associated with an increased risk of tobacco use among adolescent offspring. We investigated whether this association persists beyond adolescence by studying cigarette smoking and the use of snus (Swedish oral moist snuff) among 983 young adults from a prospective cohort study conducted in Stockholm, Sweden, between 2006 and 2010. Self-reported questionnaire data were linked with data from national population-based registers from 1983 onward. Maternal smoking during pregnancy was consistently associated with snus use in offspring (e.g., for lifetime daily snus use, adjusted odds ratio = 2.04, 95% confidence interval: 1.32, 3.16; for use of >3 cans of snus per week vs. less, odds ratio = 3.85, 95% confidence interval: 1.57, 10.15). No association was apparent with offspring's smoking, age at onset of tobacco use, or changes in use between 2006 and 2010. These findings indicate that prenatal exposure to maternal smoking is associated with regular and heavy nicotine intake from smokeless tobacco rather than from smoking. This should be further explored in epidemiologic studies that simultaneously address the roles of genetics and social environments.
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