Posted on 02/01/2015 9:22:28 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Pregnant smokers in one northeast Ohio county can get free diapers in exchange for permanently kicking the habit through a new health program there.
Summit County's Baby & Me-Tobacco Free aims to reduce premature births and infant mortality. The Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/1JWp5QF ) reports studies have linked smoking during pregnancy to pre-term labor and health problems for infants.
The program's incentive could be worth hundreds of dollars per mother.
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can they call for delivery too on their Odungophones?
Yet another feel-good “program” thought-up by LIB idiots.
So who pays for the “free” stuff?
It’s somewhere in the pro-formas of PPACA.
Same people who would pay for a stay in neonatal intensive care for a premature problem birth due to a smoking mother. 3 Hundred dollars for diapers vs thousands a day for NICU. You choose; and tell us why conservatives should choose the latter.
“s thousands a day for NICU.”
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NICU because the mother smokes?????
Nonsense.
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Here we go again. Flat earthers saying you can't prove the earth is round, or you can't prove smoking while pregnant is potentially detrimental to a baby's health.
So then why limit it to just diapers? Why not Ipods, TVs, new cars? If it saves one life...
While I am all for encouraging anyone to quit smoking....
How are they going to prove that they have quit smoking temporarily, much less permanently?
Will each woman participating be monitored 24-7 to see if they cheat?
If after the kid is out of diapers, and mom takes up smoking again, will the program’s sponsors demand to have the diapers back?
They could afford cigarettes but diapers are expensive?
“”and tell us why conservatives should choose the latter.””
?? Conservatives would prefer to pay the thousands vs the hundreds?? Doesn’t even make sense.
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