One in five Staten Island pregnant women still light up

[RB TexLa]

BY KIRSTEN DANIS
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF

Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 4:00 AM

Staten Islanders are so reluctant to give up their cigarettes that one in five pregnant women still light up, alarmed city health officials said Tuesday.

The city Health Department is launching new cable television ads aimed at the island borough, where smoking rates remain stubbornly high.

The Staten Island smoking rate has held at about 27% since 2002, even as other New Yorkers have given up the deadly habit. Nearly 20% of Staten Island moms reported smoking in their third trimester of pregnancy, according to a fresh look at a 2004-05 survey.


http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/03/26/2008-03-26_one_in_five_staten_island_pregnant_women.html?ref=rss

[thunder rising]

1. Attacking moms now?

[Catch22Dem]

2. How is that attacking?

You lost me on that one. An article about pregnant women smoking is an attack?

[RB TexLa]

3. I thought the Daily News was very impartial in the story. Didn't look like an attack to me.