Marlboro MOM Country: Map reveals West Virginia as state where most women smoke while pregnant with a shocking 30.5 per cent of expecting mothers keeping their nicotine habit

A new report by the CDC revealed that 30.5 per cent of women in West Virginia continue to smoke after getting pregnant

New York City has one of the lowest rates of expecting mother smoking, at just 2.3 per cent

While its been scientifically proven that smoking during pregnancy can lead to serious health problems for the child after birth, woman across the United States continue to puff while pregnant.



A new CDC report reveals that a shocking 30.5 per cent of women in West Virginia continued to smoke into the last three months of their pregnancy.



New York City, on the other hand, had one of the lowest smoking rates, with just 2.3 per cent of pregnant women admitting to the hazardous activity.



Bad habits: A new report by the CDC shows that many American women are continuing to smoke while pregnant. The darkest colored states are the places with the highest percentage of pregnant smokers

For the love of the baby: The above graphs shows the overall trend that most female smokers quit when they become pregnant

Giving up: The number of mothers continuing to smoke while pregnant has been decreasing on trend with woman as a whole since the 90s

An earlier report compared pregnancy smoking rates among different ethnic and age groups.



Around 30 per cent of American Indian women smoked while pregnant in 2000, but that number had nosedived by 2004, going below 20 per cent. However, the graph shows the rate shooting up again after that year.



Alaskan Natives are the group that by far smokes the most during pregnancy, hitting a high of around 40 per cent in 2001, with Hispanics smoking the least.



Age also seems to be a factor in whether women continue smoking into pregnancy.



Ethnic breakdown: Alaskan Natives have one of the highest rates of pregnancy smoking in the United States

Too young to understand: Women younger than 20 to 24 have a higher percentage of smoking while pregnant