US study: Indoor vaping bans lead to more prenatal smoking
From: Vaping Post
A recent study by Georgia State University economist Michael Pesko, found that laws restricting vaping at places of employment and entertainment, increase the chances of smoking in pregnant women by as much as 30%.
“Pregnant women are highly motivated to quit smoking cigarettes and may believe e-cigarettes are a safe way to do so,” said Pesko, who is an assistant professor at the university’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Pesko and his colleague Michael Cooper from the University of California, looked at U.S. birth record data for seven million pregnant women living in places where indoor smoking is banned. Then they calculated how an indoor vaping ban affected the rate at which smoking rates declined as the pregnancy progressed.
