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Posted on 11/28/2006 7:13:07 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY
The theory doesn't work. Few women smoked before the war. But MANY of their children smoked. MOST fathers smoked at the time and we started on Camel butts. It's accessability. We didn't do drugs in high school....they weren't there.
I disagree. Like you, my reasons are from personal experience.
My mother smoked with my brother, sister and me. The only one of us who actually took up smoking was me, the oldest, who got the least of mother's attention. My brother has never smoked and my sister did for a year in college. I did for about 15 years. Nobody in my family smokes now.
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Thats the main reason I didn't do drugs in highschool. We smoked a little weed but I couldn't afford the stuff.
I was stupid enough to do it, I just never had the means to get it.
The incentive they provide, Doc Abdullah, is for you guys to do some more number crunching.
And while you're crunching the numbers, meditate on this: You guys find a shadow of a penumbra of an emanation of a conjecture and immediately turn it into a moral cause. Then you go before the press and shoot off your oh so scientific mouths.
Then when it turns out that coffee is good for you, that starch is good, no it's bad, no maybe it doesn't matter, that red meat kills... or not, what happens is people tune you out.
How about you button your lip until you KNOW something? I personally think that some kids are probably addicted to nicotine in the womb. I bet it's a small, but greater than zero, number. But I know the difference between what I know and what I don't know. Do you?
Our findings suggest a direct effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on young adults' development of regular smoking and provide yet another incentive to persuade pregnant women not to smoke and to discourage young women from ever taking it up," Dr Abdullah Al Mamun, of the University of Queensland, said in the study published in the journal Tobacco Control.
I know, I know. Anecdotal evidence is about as worthwhile as spit, but so many of these studies fly in the face of what people actually observe.
My mother smoked when she was carrying me and it affected my wits. (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.) I am missing your point. Be gentle and 'splain it to me, please?
I love your honesty. ;-P
Weasel words...
My mother smoked when she was carrying me and it affected my wits. (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.) I am missing your point. Be gentle and 'splain it to me, please?
I am confident that this statement could be made by many in the gummint. Look at this as a case in point: When a conjecture (however good it is, it's still a conjecture at this point)) becomes grounds for an official caution, the only thing that we can be at all sure of is that somebody was eagerly searching for some reason to interfere -- all for our own good, of course.
God,what bull****!!!!!
My mother didn't smoke.
My brother and I smoked.
I,a smoker,had five kids (and smoked during pregnancy).
None of my kids smoke.
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Well, I was born into a family of smokers. Only one grandmother didn't smoke and she died at age 42 full of cancer.
My other grandmother smoked three packs of unfiltered Camels a day and lived to the ripe old age of 86.
My hubby smoked and I smoked. My daughter started smoking in her late teens. Sure don't know how any of us survived with all this second hand smoke bull chit going around, eh?
Two daughters NonSmokers---Mom smokes 81 yrs old on "0" meds---Dad non smoker died at 80. This whole deal is such bs
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