A Pregnant Pause

[Giulia]

               

For all you pregnant smokers out there. Just a little something for you to think about before you light the next cigarette.  (More worried about the effects of jackhammers than smoking on her unborn, uh huh.)

[polly2]

Oy...scary...Yet another example of how smoking twists and turns in our minds to make us totally irrational...

[Giulia]

According to www.snopes.com this is not a joke, it's the real deal.

[Giulia]

If I didn't know better I'd think you were makin' up a list of excuses to go back to smoking!

[Giulia]

My mother smoked too and I was born 5 weeks ahead of schedule. Had to be in an incubator and she never got to breast feed me, which she wanted to do. A wee thang I was. But I've sure made up for it. HA!

[carlie]

Hey Ladies...Just thought I'd put my 2 cents worth in here..... I cut back on my smoking when I was pregnant with my daughter....she was full term, but a nice little 6 pounds 2 ounces; and 19 inches long. Oh, I went through the ear infections, respiratory problems...today she's a bitty 5' 2"..and "fragile".....

With my son, I quit smoking, oddly enough, 2 months before I conceived...never smoked at all while I was pregnant. He was 3 weeks overdue...I drank castor oil to induce labor, cuz my OB/GYN wanted to wait another week - and that was NOT going to happen as far as I was concerned !!!!

My son was 9 pounds 14 ounces....22 inches long...and healthy as a moose !!!

[charon2]

That's funny that you bring up the chemical addition thing. My husband's great-grandmother GREW her own tobacco in the back yard, which is what she smoked her whole life. She lived til her nineties, and eventually it was alzheimer's that took her life. Of course the tobacco companies added all the chemicals to make cigs even more addictive. Why do they not care that these chemicals happen to be ones like cyanide and arsenic??? WHO CARES!! People are even more addicted than ever before! BLAH!! SHAME on the tobacco companies!!

[carlie]

It's MONEY...runs our country; our government, and our lives......and kills our people !!!! (And people around the world !!!)

MONEY !!!!

[becky16]

It is money and they have no right to do what they do, but to be honest they wouldn't make any money, if we didn't buy. We are responsible for our own actions, just as they are for theirs. We've known for a long time what cigarettes do to our bodies and we ignored the statistics.