[Max McGarrity]

The KABC morning host (Ken Minyard?) this morning was on this kick and so enraged a friend of mine who heard it, she pulled over and called me on her cell phone to tell me about it. By the time I'd found the danged station and sat through half a dozen commercials, I missed it. Anyone else pick up on it? Was it as bad as she said?

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[Max McGarrity]

Dr. Kerin said that a child whose mother smokes half a pack of cigarettes daily has double the risk of developing asthma.

But, but...this is the same group that says:

Asthma is not caused by smoking.
The reason asthma develops in one person and not another is not well known. Asthma tends to run in families, but not always.

2001 Canadian Lung Association

If people don't start confronting these jerks with the facts about their junk science, forcing them to back up what they say, we won't have anyone to blame but ourselves when "they" come for our children in the dead of night...

[Just another Joe]

The evidence is too compelling to present it in half measures or to worry about political correctness.

I sure would like to SEE all this evidence they keep talking about.

[Just another Joe]

"Currently, smoking is not grounds that would warrant removal of a child from the home, but that's not to say it shouldn't be.

It's coming. Just wait.
I'm glad I don't have any young ones about anymore.