• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Pregnant mom that smokes....what a sad sight .. :(

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Linflas
Healthy babies were born in the 1930s, 40s, 50s etc with mothers smoking. All things equal it would obviously be better for both the mother and the baby if the mother did not smoke but it is not something I waste any time thinking about when I see it.
Click to expand...
i wouldn't call a baby who is born to a mother who smokes as healthy as one who isn't exposed to those toxins during development.
Click to expand...

That would be why I included the bolded part in original post.
Click to expand...
i was commenting in response to your first sentence.
Click to expand...

So you are saying that healthy babies were not born prior to the period when smoking became taboo? That is going to come to a surprise to a lot of people over the age of 25.
Click to expand...
i take you are a smoker and trying to justify it?

 
I've seen a newborn hanging off the breast of a new mother, in public, while she was smoking and sitting on the park bench. Now I don't think there's a direct path for the smoke to take directly to the nipple, but it sure seemed like it was possible when I saw that. My wife and I were both traumatized by it.
 
you know, people have to pass a test to drive a car. granted, it's not a hard or rigorous test (it should be), but still something.

could we institute the same thing for having kids?

honestly, some ppl in this world are just NOT FIT for raising children.
 
Originally posted by: Rogue
I've seen a newborn hanging off the breast of a new mother, in public, while she was smoking and sitting on the park bench. Now I don't think there's a direct path for the smoke to take directly to the nipple, but it sure seemed like it was possible when I saw that. My wife and I were both traumatized by it.
Click to expand...
nicotine transfers to breast milk. not to mention the second hand smoke the poor babe has to breath.

that mother is fvckin selfish and disgusting. that poor babe.

 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Linflas
Healthy babies were born in the 1930s, 40s, 50s etc with mothers smoking. All things equal it would obviously be better for both the mother and the baby if the mother did not smoke but it is not something I waste any time thinking about when I see it.
Click to expand...
i wouldn't call a baby who is born to a mother who smokes as healthy as one who isn't exposed to those toxins during development.
Click to expand...

That would be why I included the bolded part in original post.
Click to expand...
i was commenting in response to your first sentence.
Click to expand...

So you are saying that healthy babies were not born prior to the period when smoking became taboo? That is going to come to a surprise to a lot of people over the age of 25.
Click to expand...
i take you are a smoker and trying to justify it?
Click to expand...

I am replying to the overwrought hysteria expressed by the OP and some of the subsequent responses. I have not smoked since 1984. I am guessing that some of the posters would have the same reaction if they saw a pregnant mother enjoying a glass of wine with a meal.
 
Originally posted by: NTB
Personally, given what we now know about the results of smoking, I think it's sad to see *anybody* do it.

Nate
Click to expand...

exactly.

Yes some babies will be born healthy to mothers who smoke...but some babies wont. Why take the risk? Because yuor a lazy fvck who doesnt want to quit??
 
It's sad. But as has been stated, this anti-smoking nazism is recent. People did grow and have normal lives with smoking moms.

Deal with it.
 
Originally posted by: DurocShark
It's sad. But as has been stated, this anti-smoking nazism is recent. People did grow and have normal lives with smoking moms.

Deal with it.
Click to expand...
the anti-smoking nazism is recent because the truth about smoking has emerged.
how the tobacco companies lied and manipulated has been revealed.

i've been anti-smoking ever since my mother would put myself and my sibs in a car with the windows rolled up and smoke. real fun getting carsick that way. 😕

 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: DurocShark
It's sad. But as has been stated, this anti-smoking nazism is recent. People did grow and have normal lives with smoking moms.

Deal with it.
Click to expand...
the anti-smoking nazism is recent because the truth about smoking has emerged.
how the tobacco companies lied and manipulated has been revealed.

i've been anti-smoking ever since my mother would put myself and my sibs in a car with the windows rolled up and smoke. real fun getting carsick that way. 😕
Click to expand...

HOT BOX!!! 😀
 
Originally posted by: chrisms
my mom smoked before I born i turned out fine
Click to expand...

No you didn't, your health was ruined the moment you stepped on earth. You just think you're healthy. 😉
 
If we lived in a lawless world, I'd slit the throat of every smoking mother that I saw. Gleefully. The kid(s) would be better off.
 
Originally posted by: xboxist
If we lived in a lawless world, I'd slit the throat of every smoking mother that I saw. Gleefully. The kid(s) would be better off.
Click to expand...

Yep dead is always better than being born. :roll:
 
from a poster in Rage3d:

Smoking Mothers More Likely To Have Hyperactive (ADHD) Children
SOURCE: Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Vol. 20:183-187, 1975


Child Test Scores Lower When Mothers Smoke
A Study of 2nd and 5th Grade Students
SOURCE: British Medical Journal, 4:573-575, 1973


Auditory Processing Reduced in School Age Children Exposed to Cigarette Smoke
SOURCE: Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Vol. 16(3), 1994


Math, Language, & Behavior Problems Elevated in Children of Smoking Parents
SOURCE: Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Vol. 13, 1991

Nicotine Damages Brain Cell Quality
SOURCE: Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 16(4) 1994


Severe Child Behavior Problems Linked to Mother?s Smoking
SOURCE: Associated Press - Florida Today Newspaper, September 4, 1992


Smoking During Pregnancy Increases Conduct Disorders
SOURCE: Archives General Psychiatry, 54:670-676, July, 1997


Children Age 14 Still Show Harmful Effects if Mothers Smoked During Pregnancy
SOURCE: Department of Public Health, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland


Not to mention other things, ie increased mortality rates, lower birth weight, increased risk of genetic defects...
 
Damn I saw this at a company I worked at. Two pregnant women would take a smoking break together, light up, then talk about mother-to-be stuff. 🙁
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top