[Relationship between maternal cigarette smoking and newborn birth weight and physical condition].

Current literature presents the argument whether decrease of birth weight of newborns delivered by women smoking during pregnancy results from tobacco smoking or from lower standard of living of smoking women. Therefore research was undertaken to analyse birth weight and general condition of newborns in groups of women smoking and non-smoking during pregnancy representing comparable social-living status in the examined groups and at comparable gestation age at labour. The study was performed with the method of diagnostic survey using questionnaire technique and analysis of medical records.