Abstract
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure for pregnancy period is associated to mother, fetus, and baby complications, including low birth weight (LBW). LBW is still being significant global health issue and indentified as one of the important causes of mortality and morbidity in toddler. This objective research is to determine the association of ETS exposure and LBW. The type of research is Literature Review. The search database is Google Scholar for national journals; Scopus, Pubmed, ProQuest, and Ebscohost for international journals with a span of last 10 years (2011-2021). The article used is an article with observational research design. Total of 9 articles were reviewed in this study. Four articles reported an association between exposure to ETS during pregnancy and the incidence of LBW, and 2 articles showed an association with reduced infant birth weight. Which means, ETS exposure during pregnant period can increase risk the birth weight decreasing and the LBW incidence by taking into account various confounding factors.
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