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Vitamin C aids 'fetal smokers'


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High doses of vitamin C may counteract some of the negative impact that pregnant women's smoking has on their unborn babies, according to a new Oregon National Primate Research Center study.

"The findings of this research are highly applicable to humans," said Dr. Eliot Spindel, whose work at the Beaverton, Ore., lab has been on monkeys.

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