UK information about smoking and pregnancy in this week's BMJ http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7160/0/d 28 per cent of pregnant women smoke - the same level as in 1992. Much hand-wringing and brow-furrowing in BMJ.... These are also the women least likely to bf, as we know and as has already been discussed here on Lactnet. I'd love to know if the minority of women who stop smoking during preg, or who cut down because of preg. are also more likely than continuing smokers to initiate bf - I expect they are. Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK