the results of a new study sounded the alarm in pregnant women in Asia after high rates of fetal death at birth due to exposure maternal to secondhand smoke during pregnancy. According to a study conducted at York University, more than 50% of pregnant women in Armenia, Indonesia, Jordan, Bangladesh and Nepal were exposed to second-hand smoke during pregnancy.

In some countries, more than half of pregnant women for 30 developing countries in Asia between 2008 and 2013. The results showed that in 5 out of 30 countries, pregnant women were twice as likely to smoke than the world average.

The researchers found that only 1% of fetal deaths in Pakistan were attributable to maternal smoking itself, while 7%

The study was published in the BMG Tobacco Control Journal, the first of the to provide national statistical estimates of the relationship between passive smoking and fetal death at birth.

The study advocated the development of national awareness and intervention strategies to protect mothers against passive smoking, their complications on Fetus