MHP's smoke-free program celebrates three families

Major Health Partners found that prenatal smoking for patients had risen to 25.2 percent.

To address that problem, the national cessation program for pregnant women and their families, Baby & Me – Tobacco Free, was brought to Shelby County in 2017. Since then, the prenatal smoking rate has decreased to 17 percent. And the past two quarters show that the 17 percent consists of mothers who declined t