[SheLion]

Many of us mom's know this!

[SheLion]

I bet this brings out the anti smokers and the zot!

So flame away!!!

But facts are facts!

[TommyDale]

I wonder if using crack was also of benefit?

[Nataku X]

I'll remember that and take up smoking if I get pregnant.

[martin_fierro]

Color me naughty, but that photo is more than a little hot.

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[xJones]

Women whose mothers smoked while they were pregnant have a reduced likelihood of developing breast cancer, according to a new study.

Oh, no!!! Can't these studies ever be consistent?! It's bad to smoke, no, it's not if you're pregnant. A lot of Vitamin C is good for you, watch out, not too much! Bran is good, no it doesn't anything for you!

(Dwindling into a sobbing, crying mess) I give up!

[G.Mason]

I'm still in a snit over you having the noive to have "Florida: FL Law allows right to deadly force" pulled yesterday just 'cause some mental midgets thought it came from a pro-choice (abortion) publication ... so I'm not going to type any long winded observation on this here post, but will instead jump up and down, stamping my feet. ;)

[mabelkitty]

Seems to be a connection to use of birth control pills rather than smoking. Didn't both pre-natal care and birth control coincide time-wise?

[muir_redwoods]

Women who aborted all of their pregnancies never had kids with cancer!

[rintense]

Thanks mom, for making me safer!

[rod1]

Yeah as a developmental immuntoxicologist I can take the bait and reply as anticipated.

Even in the first few lines, the article says it all--the incidence of other diseases far outweights the effect on breast cancer. Twenty years or more latency period for breast cancer. The immune system is screwed up enough right away that breat cancer would be the least of these kids' worries. I suspect these kids as a population dont have to worry about old age dementia either. Very reassuring.

[conservative cat]

Not only is smoking during pregnancy linked to a host of problems, they are also finding that children whose GRANDMOTHER smoked during pregnancy have an increased risk of asthma. It isn't only your kids you are screwing up.

[Veto!]

Well, this is good news, as every pregnant mom in our family smoked.

[Old Professer]

While it seems to be the conventional wisdom, no diseases are directly caused by smoking.

[mewzilla]

Hmmmm, swap breast cancer for lung cancer.

Why don't I think this is such a swell idea...?

[Danae]

Gaffuah...
Burgerflickle. I still ain't smokin'.

[HairOfTheDog]

"The very small reduction in breast cancer would be offset by the large number of other diseases caused by cigarette smoking."

You seem to have missed the punchline.

Good grief woman, I smoke, eat junk food, but I don't proclaim it as the healthiest way to live.

[Mears]

Just logging in and saw this---unbelievable. Can't wait to read the rest of the thread.

Happy Mother's Day !

[cyborg]

Color me skeptical.

[A. Pole]

Women whose mothers smoked while they were pregnant have a reduced likelihood of developing breast cancer, according to a new study. However, "This observation certainly does not suggest that smoking is beneficial," Dr. William C. Strohsnitter told Reuters Health. [...] After adjustment for other risk factors, women exposed in the womb to cigarette smoke had approximately half the breast cancer rate as those not exposed.

Reduction of cancer rate by half is not beneficial according to the PC Doctor.

[A. Pole]

"This observation certainly does not suggest that smoking is beneficial," Dr. William C. Strohsnitter told Reuters Health.

Smoking tobacco lowers chance for Altzheimer and Parkinson. But there is nothing beneficial about. These diseases like the breast cancer are good for you.