Section 2. News Report. Smoking harms baby during pregnancy.
The number of adult smokers in the United States keeps going down, down, down, almost 20% in the past decade, according to a new survey by the American Cancer Society.

Their report based on the government's statistics shows that, while more and more women are taking up the smoking habit, more than enough men are quitting to make up for it.

But that news about the women troubles Dr. Ervin Mann, an obstetrician at Paxtang, Pennsylvania and he's decided to do something about it.

If you are a pregnant woman and if you smoke cigarettes, then Dr. Mann will make you an offer that he hopes you can't refuse.

What we will do is, if you will not smoke throughout your pregnancy, then we'll offer you 100 dollars off the obstetric bill.

And how much is the typical bill, so how big is this discount going to be? Basically the obstetric bill is 1200 dollars, so it's a little less than 10%.

What inspired you to try this 100-dollar rebate? We know that smoking during the pregnancy results in lower birthrate insense. In other words, because of smoking, babies are small at birth. And that's the one thing we really know. There have been other things that've been implicated that there is increasing birth defects in smoking women.

You should explain to me, explain to our listeners why that is of a concern to a doctor, or to a mother and her baby?