When I read articles such as "new findings" from groups hired to elevate the status of professionals (who can't for obvious reasons toot their own horns in fear of diminishing their "professional status")....makes me wonder what the agenda is here.
Could it be the notoriety in the last decade or so of "cosmetic surgery" being performed with far more advertising and promotion than the less grand "plastic" surgery - dedicated professionals who repair all manner of nature's whims such as birth defects or deformities, or on victims of disease, fire and accident, etc.
Perhaps it is time for the "Plastic Surgeons" to make the news and this little study fits right in. The stats may not tell the whole story of course and as pointed out smoking was generally accepted for millions of pregnant women who bore beautiful babes....
I have a feeling we are witnessing a public relations campaign.... no doubt due its time for recognition, but it may suffer a "flame out" from rational arguments by people who have been life-long smokers, or who were born of women who were.
Before the new discoveries of harmful things such as lead paint and asbestos, we all apparently survived for the most part intact.... I wonder what disease the internet will give us....except addiction! :o)
I'm sure once you read that name you recall the effects this "tranquilizer" had on millions..
Smoking doesn't even come close to what Thalidomide did...