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Smoking While Pregnant Causes Finger, Toe Deformities: Just Half a Pack per Day Harms Unborn Child
American Society of Plastic Surgeons ^ | January 5, 2005

Posted on 01/09/2006 8:19:48 AM PST by billorites

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To: SheLion

Thanks for the ping, this story has broken my BS meter.. I mean COME ON.. what will they blame on smoking next?

"News Flash, smoking causes your ears to pop off and explode killing innocent bystanders with second hand ear blast" lololol

Its really getting nuts.


41 posted on 01/09/2006 9:46:34 AM PST by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: eXe
Its really getting nuts.

It IS nuts!  Every time we turn around here comes a new bogus study down the pike.  After hundreds of years of tobacco, and we are still here.  Go figure.

42 posted on 01/09/2006 9:48:05 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion
This stuff makes me puke!

And they wonder why we laugh at them.............

43 posted on 01/09/2006 9:54:01 AM PST by Gabz
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To: aft_lizard

I have an old boyfriend who had webbed toes. I wonder if his mom smoked.


44 posted on 01/09/2006 9:55:33 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: AmericanChef

When I got pregnant with my first child,who was born in 1971, I asked my OB if my smoking would be a problem. He said "nope,just be careful how much weight you gain. Back then Dr's were nuts about weight gain.My daughter was born healthy and weighed 9lbs.5oz. Thirteen months later her brother was born at 9lbs.9oz. Again healthy and I was still smoking. With my 3rd, 3 years later, my Dr. didn't care how much weight I gained or if I smoked. I quit cold turkey mid-pregnancy(have never gone back)and this guy was a whopping 9lb. 11oz.All have normal fingers and toes too!


45 posted on 01/09/2006 9:59:40 AM PST by surrey
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To: SheLion

Thanks for the ping!


46 posted on 01/09/2006 10:00:12 AM PST by Alamo-Girl (Monthly is the best way to donate to Free Republic!)
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To: SheLion

More than hundreds. The origins of tobacco smoking predates written history in America alone.


47 posted on 01/09/2006 10:01:09 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: NCLaw441
Smoking never appealed to me, but those of you who like it must REALLY enjoy it. Light up and lighten up.

You assume too much here. . .and yes, my parents smoked as well; and I have great feet (!) . . .

That humbly noted, I do not smoke and neither does my husband - who gave it up, post college - I hate almost everything about it. . .save a persons 'right' to avail oneself, to what is still, a legal substance.

I hate even more than someone needing a cigarette; a person who hypocritically damn's a citizen's right to engage. . .

While some. . .'care'; their care is misplaced; thanks mostly to those who 'claim' to care about the next generation of toes, feet. . .hearts. . .lives of children and adults. ..the environment et al and ad nauseum. . .

These people care first and foremost about their own wallets and their bank accounts. . .and for those who like 'power' there is a special payoff here. . .they really do like undermining if not controlling, the choices of others.

Meantime, many of these same protesters of cigarette smoking, would probably vote as well and in a heartbeat. . .to legalize marijuana. . .and probably think giving alcohol to the 'addicted homeless' is a great idea. . .

48 posted on 01/09/2006 10:02:23 AM PST by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: eXe
""News Flash, smoking causes your ears to pop off and explode killing innocent bystanders with second hand ear blast" lololol"

Heh.

'After examing the anal orifices of 156,002 statistical researchers, researchers have concluded that keeping a tidy desk will cause frozen sphincter syndrome.'

49 posted on 01/09/2006 10:04:24 AM PST by Eastbound
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To: billorites

NNooww II uunnddeerrssttaanndd hhooww II ggoott tthhee eexxttrraa ffiinnggeerrss..


50 posted on 01/09/2006 10:06:28 AM PST by Glenn (What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!)
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To: billorites
I had cousins in D.C. and they all had webbed feet. The father claimed he was Greek, but Pa said he was a gd Albanian and spit.

They were great swimmers.

51 posted on 01/09/2006 10:08:46 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: YouPosting2Me

e.) Bull shit


52 posted on 01/09/2006 10:11:47 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: NCLaw441; cricket

>>>>These people care first and foremost about their own wallets and their bank accounts. . .and for those who like 'power' there is a special payoff here. . .they really do like undermining if not controlling, the choices of others.

Yuppers.

The Cigarette Restitution Fund enables multiple grant money systems that is being overly abused.


53 posted on 01/09/2006 10:12:37 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia
The Cigarette Restitution Fund enables multiple grant money systems that is being overly abused.

Excellent way of putting it.

54 posted on 01/09/2006 10:24:03 AM PST by Gabz
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To: billorites
plastic surgeons found smoking during pregnancy significantly elevates the risk of having a child with excess, webbed or missing fingers and toes

But the biggest risks to children being born with missing fingers, hands, legs and heads is abortion.

55 posted on 01/09/2006 10:27:29 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: nuke rocketeer
I remember a LOT of my friends and schoolmates Moms smoked back on the 60's.

And don't forget the Highballs.

56 posted on 01/09/2006 10:28:54 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
But the biggest risks to children being born with missing fingers, hands, legs and heads is abortion.

That's all just fine - as long as the mother doesn't smoke.

57 posted on 01/09/2006 10:29:52 AM PST by Gabz
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To: jacquej
I quit cold-turkey after 40 odd years of smoking,

Congrats!!

My mom smoked, and I smoked, during pregnancy, and that's 7 kids altogether so far perfectly normal (just don't ask my husband about his brother-in-laws). One of my brothers is gay...hmmm. I think I need a federal grant to study the effects of smoking on fetuses and if it cause homosexuality!

58 posted on 01/09/2006 10:36:42 AM PST by eyespysomething (This space intentionally left blank......oh crud)
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To: basil

A doubling of the incident doesn't mean the incidence for those without the behavior is zero.


59 posted on 01/09/2006 10:39:01 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Joe 6-pack

I have seen great damage done by smoking within my own family but do not support the campaigns to completely eliminate it. You seem to be among the minority of smokers which does not try to deny its destructiveness. Look at the comments here many of which are of the "well my mom smoked and I am ok" type as though that was a refutation of the points the doctor made.

Of course, he did not say "Every smoking mom will have children with defects" but merely pointed to the increase chance of such defects. If defects are normally 20 out of a thousand and with smokers 30 out of a thousand the vast majority of births to smokers will NOT have defects even though these numbers show a 50% increase in birth defects.


60 posted on 01/09/2006 10:48:29 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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