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About one in eight women in Canada smoke when they are pregnant. Research has shown that if a woman smokes during pregnancy her child has a higher chance of being overweight or obese. Being overweight as a child is linked with health problems such as diabetes and high blood pressure, so efforts to help women to quit smoking during pregnancy may help her children's future health. Most women find it hard to quit smoking, even when they are pregnant. Some pregnant women may use e-cigarettes to try to quit smoking. We don't know if this will also affect their children's weight. Using a mouse model, the goal of this study is to see if children whose mothers use e-cigarettes during pregnancy also have a higher risk of obesity.