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I think that health care provides need to do somethings to make sure that women stop smoking and drinking while they are pregnant. The health care providers need to show videos, pictures, etc. of what happens to your child when you do smoke and/or drink. They need to be real life videos or pictures, not just the drawings that we sometimes see in books. If women see these I think it would make them not want to harm their child. I know that while I was in elementary school every year for 3 years this RV/bus type thing came to school and showed us what would happen to our lungs if we smoked and they had real pictures and video things that showed it getting worse til they had cancer. They also did this with alcohol and the liver. This honestly made me never want to smoke because I didnt want me lung to look black and gross. Also I think that insurance companies need to not cover the pregnant women who smoke or drink. I believe they should cover them but not the things due to the smoking or drinking. They should also have some programs that help pregnant women get off smoking and drinking at the beginning of their pregnancy and maybe throughout the whole pregnancy to make sure they do not fall back into the habits again.