The objective of the study was the evaluation of effect of passive smoking among pregnant women on the health condition of their newborn babies.The study cov-ered 150 healthy, non-smoking women from the Lublin Region.Among the total number of respondents, 45.34% were not exposed during pregnancy to passive smoking at their workplace, while 13.33% were passive smokers throughout the whole period of preg-nancy.The state of their babies was assessed according to the APGAR Scale.A statisti-cally significant correlation was noted between the maternal exposure to passive smoking during pregnancy and evaluation of the babies according to the APGAR Scale.