[billorites]

[saganite]

This is the opening shot in seeking a law banning pregnant women from smoking. They will be charged with child abuse.

[aft_lizard]

There is something to that, at least in my case. My mom was a smoker, even though she only smoked until the 2nd trimester (i think). Anyways I have prostrated(sp?) toes. The middle ones are permanently curled up, although fully functional.

[nuke rocketeer]

Why was there not an epidemic of these deformities back in the 1940's to the 1960's when a much higher percentage of the population smoked? I remember a LOT of my friends and schoolmates Moms smoked back on the 60's. Out of several hundred not a single one had these deformities. This study has a strong stench of doctored raw data to me.

[mysterio]

My mom smoked. My fingers and toes are ok.

But just in case, we should ban smoking somewhere lese. Let's see, how about let's ban smoking in cars! And within SIXTY feet of a door instead of thirty! And let's make smokers get a red A tatooed on their chests.

But let's keep letting government make lots of money off of tobacco, because that's ok.

[television is just wrong]

Thank God that habit never appealed to me.

[Chiapet]

That newspaper photo is the perfect photo-definition of irony.

[martin_fierro]

LOL love it.

[YouPosting2Me]

1) Smoking causes deformities/missing fingers.
2) Without thumbs, you can't flick a lighter.

Which is it:
a)Intelligent Design
b)Evolution
c)Adaptation
d)Poetic Justice
?

[SheLion]

[DumpsterDiver]

One for the pufflist?

[dangus]

Boy, I'd like to give SOMEONE the middle finger... except I have an even number... If anyone wants one, though, I can spare a few...%)

[fizziwig]

One thing is for sure, abortion is a LOT more dangerous to the fetus than the mother smoking.... and you don't need any statistical analysis to make that finding!!!!

[stylin19a]

We suspected that smoking was a cause of digital anomalies...

The "Carnac The Magnificent" scientific studies.

[sandbar]

So has anyone examined Lucy Arnez and Desi Arnez Jr?

[Eastbound]

"Women who smoked 11 to 20 cigarettes a day raised the risk 38 percent, and women who smoked 21 or more cigarettes per day raised the risk 78 percent."

Show me the data.

How to streeeeeeeeeeeeetch facts to suit any agenda.

[tallhappy]

More junk science.

[Glenn]

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[metesky]

I had cousins in D.C. and they all had webbed feet. The father claimed he was Greek, but Pa said he was a gd Albanian and spit.

They were great swimmers.

[Aquinasfan]

plastic surgeons found smoking during pregnancy significantly elevates the risk of having a child with excess, webbed or missing fingers and toes

But the biggest risks to children being born with missing fingers, hands, legs and heads is abortion.

[Publius6961]

Researchers examined the records of more than 6.8 million live births in the United States during 2001 and 2002, finding 5,171 children born with a digital anomaly where the mother smoked during pregnancy but did not suffer from other medical complications, such as heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure.

I would be a lot more confident in the honesty of this study, had it been applied to births of 40 years ago, when the smoking rate was double.

I would expect the I, along with my kids and tens of millions of others would exhibit a similar percentage of anomalies. Which we don't.

Corelation is not causation. Doctors, on principle, choose to remain ignorant of scientific statistics.