[Mears]

Hey,I sucked on cigarettes for all five of my kids, most of us did then,and they are all healthy, adult Boomers today.

So she smokes! So what!

[tdadams]

So, you think it's perfectly OK to smoke while pregnant? Would you recommend your daughter or daughter in law smoke while pregnant with your grandchildren?

If not, why not? Please explain.

[SheLion]

Hey,I sucked on cigarettes for all five of my kids, most of us did then,and they are all healthy, adult Boomers today.

So she smokes! So what!

As well as I did.  Gave birth to a 10 on the Apgar Scale, 8.12 pound, 21 and a half inches long baby girl!

I was born into a smoking family.  Didn't hurt me.  The same with hubby.   We were lucky not to have the Nanny's and the Anti's back then.  Thank God!

[Phantom Lord]

Hey,I sucked on cigarettes for all five of my kids, most of us did then,and they are all healthy, adult Boomers today.

So she smokes! So what!

The point is she is an absolute moron. Worrying about jackhammer noise and what it might do to her unborn child, yet caring none about what smoking will do to it.

[theirjustdue]

"Hey,I sucked on cigarettes for all five of my kids, most of us did then,and they are all healthy, adult Boomers today. So she smokes! So what!"

The extent of your "so what" depends in large part on whether you are the Mother, or the Father :-)

You stated "most of us did then". I guess the question is; knowing what you do today, would you behave that way today?

In any case, the potential for damage is there and I am glad to hear your children grew up healthy.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Agreed, I'm one of 9 children and my mother was a smoker (she did quit I think before the 9th). All of us graduated high school, most have college educations, none of us have a criminal record, and all are employeed or raising children in a two parent family. Not too bad, I think (and none off us smoke).

I won't say it is a good idea, but I don't think it is the terrible evil that everyone would have you believe.

[cherry]

its not the smoking....my mother smoked like a chimney and yet she was a great mother....

its standing there for the media doing something she knows is unhealthy for her and her unborn child...and still has the audacity to question construction noise....

my mom never knew the dangers until she was well addicted...

btw...she's 80 now and only quit the smokes because of her heart attack a few years back.....lol

[metesky]

Geez Mears, somebody thinks you're under some obligation to 'slpain your life to 'em.

Some pretty funny people around here...