Teenage mums smoking to make their babues smaller!!

I'm inclined to agree with this statement.

 

Crazy and sad. i gotta say for anyone actually considering this...it's not always true. i have a friend who smoked through her entire pregnacy and her baby was 9lbs 14 oz.

 

Single anecdotes don't prove or disprove things which long term studies with huge numbers of participants have proven. It is a fact, that in many cases, smoking WILL cause a lower birth weight baby. That doesn't mean that a smoker can't have a 10 lb baby, or that a nonsmoker can have a 3 lb baby. But, anecdotes are not proof of anything.

There is virtually NO proven fact that doesn't have abberations to it. We KNOW smoking increases your cancer risk. Yet, there are a few 100 year olds who have smoked most of their lives. Does this disprove ALL the data that proves smoking is a cancer risk? No. It proves nothing other than "some people get lucky."

 

Umm...
i was in NO way advocating smoking while pregnant. i was using my friends situation to discourge anyone who would actually consider smoking to have a small baby. It doesn't guarentee anything.

 

yeah, I'm one of those "smoker babies" too. my mom smoked the whole time she was pregnant and smoked in the house my whole life...and she smokes A LOT! she said i was a "long, skinny baby" when I was born. and I remember getting sick a lot as a child. coincidence? hmm...

 

I think they need birth control.