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31st January 2019
07:47pm GMT

They can claim further ones throughout their pregnancy depending on how long they give up for.
"We've seen continued strong improvement around smoking in pregnancy," Tom Hall, South Tyneside Council's director of public health, told Chronicle Live.
Before new initiatives were introduced to encourage expectant mums to curb their smoking 2014 and 2015, around 25 per cent of pregnant women in the area were smokers.
"That has now dropped to around 13 per cent, which is a really positive improvement and one we hope to see continued."
As well as the direct dangers smoking mothers pose to their unborn children, smoking is also linked to a number of costly, complicated deliveries at hospitals.Explore more on these topics: