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Headline:

Tobacco byproducts pass to fetuses

Newspaper Article Synopsis:

Scientists have discovered that a main cancer-causing agent in tobacco is passed between the mother and fetus. Urine samples from infants in Germany show that the chemical NKK is broken down by the fetus and then expelled.

Newspaper Article Source:

Associated Press. Tobacco byproducts pass to fetuses. Star Tribune, 1998 August 24: A4(col. 1).

Newspaper Article Referred to:

Author(s): Stephen Hecht (University of Minnesota)
Conference: Annual meeting of the American Chemical Society (Boston)

lam /08/24/1998