[qam1]

WTF?????

Just when you thought they couldn't blame anything else on cigarettes now they blame them for kids standing in shopping carts at the grocery store.

It is just beyond me how researchers like this manage to get grant money for such silly studies like this.

The sad part is if just 1/10th (A high estimate) of all the money spend on all these silly studies like this one was instead spend on real research they probably would have cured cancer by now.

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[qam1]

Ping!!!!

[FairOpinion]

It's all the fault of the shopping carts, we need to ban them. (/sarcasm)

[Ford Fairlane]

48% of children climbed or attempted to climb from carts

My 2 yr old niece can get out of her CAR seat in 1 minutes when she is strapped in properly

(not like I would know what is proper, i cant figure the $^&*$^&*$ thing out - my degree must not be advanced enough)

How are you supposed to keep a kid in a shopping cart?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I bet none of these researchers has much experience trying to lug to youngsters into the grocery store to do shopping for groceries. The goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible, without buying too much sugar, and without needing to yell at the children in public. If this is accomplished... the trip has been a success!

[FairOpinion]

"Tobacco purchases were related to handling of hazards by children and standing in carts. "

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And someone actually paid for this study?! This is indeed the most ludicrous "correlation" I read in recent times.

[MattAMiller]

Since when do 24% of adults purchase tobacco products? I question the sampleing. It is an interesting correlation though. I wonder if it would survive a better sample.

[lowbridge]

Viva Le Cart of Death!

[weegee]

How many of the parents who smoked purchased Double-Stuff Oreoes for their kids?!!!

This study is incomplete! This is series, more tax money, now!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

[lowbridge]

[xm177e2]

Tobacco purchases were related to handling of hazards by children and standing in carts.

Tobacco purchases are also linked to poverty, aren't they?

[qam1]

Good job to whoever added "Voyeurism" to the keywords.

LOL! What kind of job do these people have, Following people around and watching them in the grocery store.

Maybe the reason all these kids were climbing out of the shopping carts was because they were afraid of the people with clipboards following them all over the store.

[Great Dane]

I don't believe this...... wait a minute, of course I do, the ANTI's seem to be stepping up their battle fronts, wonder where it's all going to take us.

[honeygrl]

I've never used the safety belt in a grocery cart before because I don't leave my kid sitting alone in the cart. AND I am a horrible mommy that lets my toddler stand up in the basket of the cart if he wants to. I always stay right with the cart though. Someone might steal my purse that is also in the cart if I left it alone. :) This is the dumbest study I think I've ever seen. Half the grocery carts in stores don't even have working safety belt to even use if you wanted to. I don't need the safety belt anyhow. If my toddler tries to climb out of the cart he gets spanked. A firm hand to the leg or butt works better than any safety belt in a grocery cart. Next they are going to say that tobacco use is related to beating children in grocery stores.

[Axenolith]

It is just beyond me how researchers like this manage to get grant money for such silly studies like this.

Well Duh. There getting government money to prove why the government needs to regulate you...