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I understand what you are saying, but I think it should be up to the individual and her doctor.

All my OB said to me about smoking was to try and cut it back a bit and in fact just minutes after my daughter was born she told me that if I felt like having a cigarette anytime during the evening to call a nurse for a wheelchair to go outside to have one. I never even thought about taking her up on the idea........all I wanted was a real beer, I was so sick and tired of the non-alcoholic stuff I had been drinking for 9 months. That and a real cup of coffee, not the decaf junk I'd been drinking!!!!

Hey, I agree with you on the beer--LOL. But for me it was more the taste so I could live with the occasional O'Douls. But if it wasn't available, I gotta tell you, I don't drink it. Look, I've even cut back on tuna this pregnancy because of the mercury level warnings and our fight with autism in another son. I love tuna fish, but I did without it just the same. Being pregnant is hard, I know it, I live it, even now at 9 months preggers. I guess I just still see 9 months as a short period of time to have your style cramped. I have to say I admire you at least cut back. In my experience, again with family, cutting back is used as an excuse to get everyone off of their back and they don't, nor have any intention of "cutting back" on the cigarette smoking.
Like I've said time and again, I don't wish for anyone to interceed in your affairs, but personally, again, I think it is disgusting to do certain lifestyle related things when pregnant--that is mo and I'm not seeking to foist it on you by the gov's hand so we can just agree to disagree.