Although this is down from a high of 34 percent in 1965, most of this decline occurred before 1990. Education level is highly associated with smoking. About 30 percent of high-school girls smoke. About 13 percent of women continue to smoke during pregnancy. Of those who do quit during their pregnancy, two-thirds will return to smoking within a year.
Secondhand smoke continues to be a major health-risk factor.
Teens targeted Teenage girls appear to be at particular risk of becoming smokers. According to the report, which also examined the role of advertisements in tobacco use among women, tobacco advertising aimed at women began in the 1920s, when one brand of cigarettes began advertising an association between weight control and smoking cigarettes. There was a 300 percent increase in sales of this cigarette in the first year of the advertising campaign. You'll find a lot of tobacco advertisements, which show slim, trim, healthy appearing people. Although the message about the dangers of cigarette smoking during pregnancy are well-known smoking has been linked to low birth weight babies, premature deliveries and miscarriage nearly 13 percent of pregnant women continue to smoke.