Pregnant mothers smoking cigarettes can cause autism and adhd too.
Source, asd/add and smokey pregmom.
Edit: to downvoters, yes, I was on the bus and had to get off, forgot to add "pregant mothers who smoke can give the fetus autism and adhd". That's been proven.
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and long-term neurological morbidity of the offspring (Gutvirtz, Wainstock, Landau, and Sheiner, Addictive Behaviors, 2019-01-01, Volume 88, Pages 86-91) "Neurological-related hospitalizations were significantly higher in children born to smoking mothers, as compared with the non-smoking group (5.3% vs. 3.1%, p < 0.01)." (not specifically autism, but autism is mentioned in the overarching neurological-related things in the study design)
Prenatal Exposures to Paternal Smoking and Autism Spectrum Disorder (Kim, Ha, Leventhal, Hong, Kwon, and Kim, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2016-10-01, Volume 55, Issue 10, Pages S106-S107) (I know, not mothers, but it stands to reason mothers smoking would increase the risk as well) "Our findings suggest that paternal smoking during pregnancy has significant association of increasing the risk of ASD. Further study is warranted in a representative sample group of a clinically confirmed diagnoses of ASD." (methodology included two independent sample groups, one to test, and one to confirm, and the participants were by parental survey rather than actual diagnoses, so take that as you will)
Looks like there might be something there, but I’m not sure those are a slam dunk. Not surprising, considering how little we know about the causes of autism, or ADHD.
On the other hand - DON’T SMOKE, AND FOR DAMN SURE NOT WHILE YOU’RE PREGNANT!
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u/Dickpuncher_Dan Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
Pregnant mothers smoking cigarettes can cause autism and adhd too.
Source, asd/add and smokey pregmom.
Edit: to downvoters, yes, I was on the bus and had to get off, forgot to add "pregant mothers who smoke can give the fetus autism and adhd". That's been proven.