Quite a few are the damages that tobacco causes in the baby in gestation so that the future moms try to leave the bad habit. But research has gone further analyzing the effects that smoking in pregnancy has for the baby and even for his future offspring. They have concluded that smoking in pregnancy harms the health of future grandchildren.
The study has been carried out in Spain jointly between the Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Virgen de la Arrixaca and Hospital de Madrid, and is the first to demonstrate an intergenerational relationship linked to smoking.
The scientists followed 128 children with cancer among a group of healthy children born between 2001 and 2005. They believe that "it is possible that tobacco carcinogens cause tumors through epigenetic changes in DNA" that are transmitted from mothers to children through of three generations.
To explain it better, the mother's exposure to tobacco for previous generations influences the genetic information of the egg that will give life to a grandchild more susceptible to developing tumors.
AdvertisingExperts suggest that tobacco could be, in large part, one of the culprits of childhood tumors.
Tobacco has 60 carcinogenic substances. It is logical to think that these substances affect all the cells of the body, including reproductive ones, and that their harmful effects are inherited by future generations.
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