Take Action-Tobacco Bill Needs Your Support!
Posted on March 23, 2009
Last night I sent an email to my US Representative about the Tobacco Bill. Even though I do not smoke, I recognize that smoking is harmful to an unborn baby when the mother smokes. In addition, habits such as smoking can impact a woman or a man’s fertility. Please consider sending your US Representative an email too.
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (H.R. 1256)
“The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” (H.R. 1256) very soon. This legislation, if enacted, would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution and sale of tobacco products.
Currently, about 10% of women smoke during pregnancy. According to a 2004 report by the US Surgeon General, if all pregnant women stopped smoking there would be an 11% reduction in stillbirths and a 5% reduction in newborn deaths. Enactment of this legislation would support a significant reduction in smoking among women of childbearing age by restricting deceptive marketing practices, limiting children’s access to tobacco products and preventing tobacco companies from misleading women about “reduced risk tobacco products.”
We need your help to get this bill approved-please contact your US Representative today!” March of Dimes
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It drives me nuts that mothers still smoke while pregnant while I’m battling infertility and would give anything to be pregnant and other women take the responsibility so lightly and can’t put another being’s needs ahead of their own.