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Studies of smoking during pregnancy and preterm birth among Hispanic women are sparse. Our goal was to evaluate the effect of cigarette smoking during pre-pregnancy, early pregnancy, and mid pregnancy on preterm birth among Hispanic women, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States.We evaluated data from a prospective cohort study of 1,041 Hispanic (predominantly Puerto Rican) women recruited...