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Answer the following question. The correct answer will reveal one warning label.
5. Smoking during pregnancy can pose serious threat to the unborn baby. The most serious complications including stillbirth, premature delivery and low birth weight can be chalked up to the fact that nicotine and carbon monoxide work together to reduce the baby's supply of oxygen.
__________ chokes off oxygen by narrowing blood vessels throughout the body, including the ones in the umbilical cord. It's a little like forcing the baby to breathe through a narrow straw.
To make matters worse, the red blood cells that carry oxygen start to pick up molecules of __________ instead. Suddenly, that narrow straw doesn't even hold as much oxygen as it should.
Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Monoxide, Nicotine
