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Researchers examined the records of more than 6.8 million live births in the United States during 2001 and 2002, finding 5,171 children born with a digital anomaly where the mother smoked during pregnancy but did not suffer from other medical complications, such as heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure.

I would be a lot more confident in the honesty of this study, had it been applied to births of 40 years ago, when the smoking rate was double.

I would expect the I, along with my kids and tens of millions of others would exhibit a similar percentage of anomalies. Which we don't.

Corelation is not causation. Doctors, on principle, choose to remain ignorant of scientific statistics.