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Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists from the Yale School of Medicine recently discovered that mothers who smoked during pregnancy affected the reading scores of their infants, so much so that the children scored lower on exams that measured the accuracy of their ability to read aloud and to comprehend the reading material that they had in front of them. In particular, the mothers included in the research project smoked over one pack per day during their...