[HOTTIEBOY]

But, but I thought unborn babies were not really babies yet....

[HOTTIEBOY]

pingy

[Anti-Bubba182]

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.

[LongElegantLegs]

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?

[Mr. Brightside]

Conclusion: Abortion subsidies needed to stop second hand smoke.

[mad puppy]

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.

[WrightWings]

children of women who smoked during pregnancy were more likely to become smokers

Sweet. 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

[Just another Joe]

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.

[Buck W.]

So, smokers are victims who can't control themselves.

[Mad Dawg]

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.

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?