Many Women Still Smoke, Drink During Pregnancy Reuters Nov 6, 2000. The findings, published in the November issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, underscores the need for efforts aimed at preventing women form starting smoking and using alcohol. Smoking and drinking alcohol during pregnancy could cause preterm labor and spontaneous abortion, Dr. Shahul H. Ebrahim of the Centers for Disease control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, told Reuters Health in an interview Nicotine Causes Selective Degeneration in Brain, UCLA Neuroscientists Report . Ascribe News, Nov 6, 2000. Nicotine causes degeneration in a region of the brain that affects emotional control, sexual arousal, REM sleep and seizures, UCLA neuroscientists report in the current issue of the journal of Neuropharmacology.
Visitors can tour a memorial dedicated to people who have died due to tobacco use.
The memorial is a virtual flowerbed, with each flower representing 20 deaths due to use of tobacco products. The Secrets button displays quotes from tobacco company internal memos, which demonstrates that tobacco companies knowingly manipulated the amount of nicotine in tobacco to produce a substance with the highest addictive properties. Much of this information, although disturbing, is not new. The website will connect visitors to people and organizations dedicated to a smoke free future. The UTFC now has an e-mail list to keep coalition members informed and connected.