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Future smokers may be programmed in womb
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| 11/28/2006
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Posted on 11/28/2006 7:13:07 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY
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But, but I thought unborn babies were not really babies yet....
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:13:08 AM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
To: SheLion; Fierce Allegiance
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:14:10 AM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(I'm your huckleberry)
To: HOTTIEBOY
I don't know if this is plausible. More likely the child observes the parent smoking, concludes it is OK, then starts and get hooked. Enviornment is the more likely cause.
To: HOTTIEBOY
Children of the 1,000 women who had smoked during pregnancy were three times more likely to start smoking by the age of 14 and twice as likely afterwards compared to other children. Well, were their Moms still smoking at this point, or did they give it up after pregnancy? Think that might have anything to do with it?
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:19:38 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Enviornment is the more likely cause.
Yep. Peer presure, trying to fit in, trying to have a "cool" image.
My parents smoked....I wasn't doomed. I tried it for a little while just like all kids, never picked it up.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:20:33 AM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(I'm your huckleberry)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Nope, I'm convinced it's hereditary. The only other person in my family who smoked was my elderly granny. All of her granddaughters ended up smoking at one time or another, and had to wrestle with the quitting. Granny lived to be 97.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:23:39 AM PST
by
3AngelaD
(ic.)
To: LongElegantLegs
Well, were their Moms still smoking at this point, or did they give it up after pregnancy? The best way to test it would be to study adoptees whose bio mothers smoked, but whose adopted parents didn't.
Mr. Cat's mom smoked during pregnancy and around him all his life. Not surprisingly, he is a smoker still. He's never NOT had nicotine.
To: Anti-Bubba182
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:28:43 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
( <h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
To: HOTTIEBOY
Conclusion: Abortion subsidies needed to stop second hand smoke.
To: Anti-Bubba182
Enviornment is the more likely cause. And fetal peer pressure. That's why I never let my unborn baby hang around other unborn babies who smoked.
To: Anti-Bubba182
It's entirely plausible to me. Of course in matters of addiction there will be variations, so the "Well, HAIL, my mother smoked like a chimney and I never touched the stuff," argument is not dispositive.
Nicotine is powerful stuff. Addition and serotonin are powerful stuffs. People vary widely in their response to things - from glutein to peanuts to fava beans to booze. Some people taking statin drugs lose their sense of taste.
When you cosinder the wide range of reactions to drugs, and the power of nicotine to affect appetite, mood, sensation, AND the lack of evidence that it cannot cross the placenta, I can well imagine there being "nicotine babies the way there are "crack babies".
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:30:11 AM PST
by
Mad Dawg
(Now we are all Massoud)
To: HOTTIEBOY
This is horse $hiite.
My Mother smoked and I hate cigarettes. None of her 4 kids smoke (ok, one did for about 6 months in High School, but she was crazy then). As a kid, being around someone that smoked in the house and in the car was more then enough to cure me of what ever addictions I might have picked up while in the womb.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:30:30 AM PST
by
mad puppy
( The Southern border is THE issue)
To: LongElegantLegs
I am sure it is the type of research that can have whatever outcome they were looking for.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:34:53 AM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(I'm your huckleberry)
To: conservative cat
Or they could look up past statistics and figure out what percentage of women smoked in the forties, fifties and sixties, etc. If this study is true then there should be a greater percentage of smokers in my generation than in the previous one. I think.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:36:27 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
To: HOTTIEBOY; Mad Dawg
children of women who smoked during pregnancy were more likely to become smokersSweet. Now I can look for a government subsidy to cover my increased insurance/medical costs as a smoker.
Nicotine babies. Yup, that's me. Where can I pick up my check? /sarc
To: HOTTIEBOY
They suggest nicotine from cigarettes passes through the placenta and may act directly on the developing brain of the unborn child.Yep, typical anti study.
suggest - may These are words found throughout studies that are used for propoganda value.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:38:57 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: HOTTIEBOY
So, smokers are victims who can't control themselves.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:41:34 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: Just another Joe
Add to your comments the fact that nicotine is contained in many foods and their suggested may theories are shown to be bunk.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:53:22 AM PST
by
CSM
(Americans are getting more and more childish and looking for Big Mommy to take care of them.)
To: WrightWings
No nononononono!
If you're a smoker, the gov't ought to pay you a premium for the probability that you will end up costing the health system less than non-smokers, by thoughtfully dying earlier.
You gotta think these things through. I'm thinking of taking up cigars again as an act of civic responsibility.
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posted on
11/28/2006 8:04:51 AM PST
by
Mad Dawg
(Now we are all Massoud)
To: Mad Dawg
When you see a future mom, offer her a cigar.....
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posted on
11/28/2006 8:07:31 AM PST
by
NRA1995
(Clinton "tried", 3000 died)
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