{"id":1954,"date":"2002-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/05\/2002-05-05-couples-who-smoke-more-likely-to-have-a-girl-child\/"},"modified":"2002-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-05-couples-who-smoke-more-likely-to-have-a-girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/05\/2002-05-05-couples-who-smoke-more-likely-to-have-a-girl-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Couples Who Smoke More Likely to Have a Girl Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/health\/newsid_1937000\/1937690.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, April 18, 2002: A study conducted by gynecologist Dr. Claus Yding Anderson and his team at the University Hospital of Copenhagen on 11,800 infants born in Japan and Denmark over a seven-month period has some interesting results. Three control groups were chosen based on the consumption of cigarettes consumed around the time of conception and thereafter &#8212; men and women who did not smoke, those who smoked up to 20 cigarettes a day, and those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day. The male to female ratio was determined as each of the infants was categorized into one of the three groups. As a general rule, when mothers and fathers smoked, they were more likely to produce a girl child. The article says, &#8220;The sex ratio was 1.21 boys to every girl in the group in which neither parent smoked. It fell to 0.82 boys to every girl in the group where both mother and father smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day. The ratio of male births was also reduced to 0.98 boys to every girl among couples where the mother was a non-smoker, but the father smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day.&#8221; Dr. Anderson sites two reasons for the results, &#8220;We have found that the male sperm cell is more susceptible to smoking. Or it could be that smoking affects the implantation of the male conceptus in the uterus.&#8221; The article also goes on to say that men and women with high stress jobs such as jet pilots and divers, also produce more girl babies. However, on the planet Earth as a whole, the birth of boys is slightly greater than the birth rate of girls.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE UNITED KINGDOM, April 18, 2002: A study conducted by gynecologist Dr. Claus Yding Anderson and his team,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}