[Sail The Blue Sea]

Of course smoking while pregnant is harmful. Some women do it to insure a low birth weight.

The internal effects of smoking are well known. While pregnant you are inducing carcinogens directly into the mother and therefore the child's bloodstream. It's poison, none of it is good.

As the baby is developing their tiny lungs, inhaling smoke is also inhibiting growth. Why would any parent who loves their child want to inhibit the lungs of their precious babies?

As the child is growing not only is it witnessing and surrounded by a deadly and filthy habit, but their homes and vehicles are covered in tar. No one can be so stupid as to think that smoke is innocuous. Even in cars which smokers always claim to have the windows open the roof lining will be filthy and a film of tar will cover their windows.

This isn't rocket science. Without going into the intricate physiology of all the disease smoking causes, when you look around at the filth you know that not only will it be in your home and car, but it enters your child's lungs.

[Publius6961]

Two words: Bruce Ames

He identified dozens of common foods that we eat every day that have much higher natural concentrations of scare-tactics 'carcinogens' than the levels that cause "activists" to wet their panties.

[Quix]

The internal effects of smoking are well known. While pregnant you are inducing carcinogens directly into the mother and therefore the child's bloodstream. It's poison, none of it is good.

As the baby is developing their tiny lungs, inhaling smoke is also inhibiting growth. Why would any parent who loves their child want to inhibit the lungs of their precious babies?

As the child is growing not only is it witnessing and surrounded by a deadly and filthy habit, but their homes and vehicles are covered in tar. No one can be so stupid as to think that smoke is innocuous. Even in cars which smokers always claim to have the windows open the roof lining will be filthy and a film of tar will cover their windows.

This isn't rocket science. Without going into the intricate physiology of all the disease smoking causes, when you look around at the filth you know that not only will it be in your home and car, but it enters your child's lungs.
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Excellent very factual statements. Therefore, they will be seen as outrageously inappropriate on a smoking thread.