Our understanding of the interactions between genetic and environmental factors in shaping
behavioral phenotypes has expanded to include environment-induced epigenetic …

Nicotine exposure during pregnancy through cigarette smoking, nicotine replacement
therapies or e-cigarette use continues to be a widespread public health problem, impacting …

Maternal cigarette smoking is a risk factor for adolescent smoking. One possible explanation
for increased smoking by human adolescents after maternal nicotine exposure is that …

Parental smoking is known to have prenatal health effects on developing fetuses, and
postnatal exposure to secondhand smoke causes adverse health effects during childhood …

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is associated with numerous obstetrical, fetal, and
developmental complications, as well as an increased risk of adverse health consequences …

Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. A combination of
biological and environmental risk factors make women especially vulnerable to nicotine …

Presently, a growing interest is focused on the origins of the “Metabolic Syndrome”, a cluster
of several metabolic disorders linking obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and type 2 …

There is a significant association between maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and
greater subsequent risk of smoking in female offspring. In animal models, prenatal nicotine …

The association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and childhood antisocial
outcomes has been demonstrated repeatedly across a variety of outcomes. Yet debate …

This paper reviews the literature on maternal influences on smoking behaviors of offspring
from the perspective of neuropsychiatric deficits that may be transmitted from mother to child …