Posted on 05/23/2006 11:53:56 AM PDT by Moonman62
Yes, there are addictions all around.
Big Macs
Hershey bars
sex
coffee
I mean, we could go on forever.
So, I guess no one should have kids, right?
While I was reading the article I was thinking that it could be that parents who smoke around their children are worse parents. It's too early to conclude that it's the smoke.
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On the face of it, that might seem like a very plausible contaminating factor.
However, WITH THAT FACTOR HELD CONSTANT, the DIFFERENCE IN BLOOD LEVELS OF THE SMOKING CHEMICAL CORRELATED EXTREMELY WELL WITH INCREASES IN BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS.
That argument, therefore, falls wholesale into the trash as inadequate to explain the findings.
One might wonder how many children such a position was offered in justification for smoking around said children.
Perhaps children who have asthma have worse parents since these "studies" were done on asthmatic children.
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Perhaps it would be best to grope vainly for another excuse or rationalization. I do not know of a single study supporting such an idea. Children having asthma--that issue--cuts across a LOT of other variables, including child rearing skills.
The problem with bad behavior in kids and teens is this:
THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES FOR ANY OF THEIR ACTIONS, SMALL OR LARGE!!!!!!
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Is this similar to the lack of consequences for folks who willfully smoke around children?
Yea! Great to see someone else brave enough to stand up and be counted for truth on such threads!
Thanks. Congrats.
We do not yet well understand why some folks seem to be immune--RELATIVELY--to the destructive effects of smoking directly and indirectly.
However, we do understand increasingly well that MOST PEOPLE are destroyed in greater or lesser degrees by smoke directly and indirectly.
Those are just the facts.
</sarc>
"Is this similar to the lack of consequences for folks who willfully smoke around children?"
So, let me get this straight. Cigarettes are causing all this bad behavior in kids?
Gee, who woulda thunk it. There are less smokers now than in 1950.
I would suspect that, too.
However, that variable remained constant in this study while the blood levels of the smoke related poison correlated highly with behavior problems step by step of the DEGREE of both.
Simple fact "behavioral problems", whatever those may be, are subjective.
hehe! Probably!
What a load of cr@p!
Those are NOT facts! Especially the one about second hand smoke. JUNK science!
"all?"
Sounds like sloppy reading, to me.
I don't recall anything in the study that asserted that the smoke related poisons found in the blood--higher levels of poison correlating with higher levels of misbehavior--were 100% responsible and the only responsible factor for the misbehaviors.
It is clear from the study that the smoke related poison(s) are A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR in the misbehaviors. This study did not have anything to do with apportioning out percentages for each contributing factor to misbehavior.
But I suspect you knew that . . . if you thought about it, at all.
At this stage of such research, behavior problems can be quantified and measured very reliably.
Check-lists are reliable.
Video-taping and filling in check-lists afterwards is reliable.
The allegation while technically correct has no significant bearing on the facts of the study. Behavioral problems can be measured and quantified very reliably, repeatably, congruently, validly.
Ahhhhhhhh yes, a true believer.
Cheers.
That construction on reality is very far from my construction on reality. And, I've found mine exceedingly reliable for a long time.
Take care,
I don't run but exercise quite a bit. I get a bit testy if I don't get my daily exercise in. Sort of like a nicotine fit I use to get when I smoked.
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