Toddlers exposed to cigarette smoke in utero exhibit greater behavioral problems
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"PRSmith" prsm...@houston.rr.com
Another good reason not to smoke or to expose your baby to ETS during pregnancy. . .
*********************************** Source: EurekAlert, 2006-07-13 The toddlers of women who smoked during pregnancy begin to show a pattern of behavior problems as early as 18-24 months of age, according to a study published in the July/August issue of the journal Child Development. The finding comes from a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and conducted by Lauren Wakschlag Ph.D., and her colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with researchers at the Universities of York (England) and M***achusetts (Boston), and the National Institute of Mental Health. It is the first study to show a link between smoking during pregnancy and child behavior problems in the first years of life.
Researchers suspect that the link between cigarette smoking and behavior lies in the way cigarette smoking affects fetal brain systems that regulate behavior. . . .
Most strikingly, whereas the level of such problems remained relatively stable over time for the non-exposed toddlers, the behavior problems of exposed toddlers substantially increased from 18 to 24 months. Additionally, researchers found that nearly all toddlers with behavior problems in the clinical range at age 2 had been exposed to cigarette smoke.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/sfri-tet070706.php ***********************************
Robert Wagner robert.nos...@wagner.net
Antismokers don't care about anyone but themselves. Typical ideologues don't break away from their habits easily, and always have an excuse to justify their actions. When facts don't support them, they invent some.
ni ...@verizon.net
If this be the case, PRShmitty's momma must have smoked up ,a storm.
That could be one explanation for his addled thinking and stupid behavior.
"PRSmith" prsm...@houston.rr.com
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Many women do care, do have the strength to give up smoking during pregnancy and do, in fact, quit. All we can do is continue to educate them at every possibility. If we can convince just one, that is one more baby who has a better chance at a normal life.
sin nombre n...@no.where
"More quotes. Get a life." - prsmith 7/2/06
Robert Broughton rbrone...@broug8hton.ca
Nonsense. We just don't care about you. If this makes you unhappy, we don't care about that, either. Deal with it.
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Bob Broughton http://broughton.ca/ Vancouver, BC, Canada "It should be legal for a private maternity ward to permit smoking."
- Chuck Wright, May 22, 2006
Robert Wagner robert.nos...@wagner.net
c/suspect/speculate/ Had researchers checked socioeconomic status of mothers, they would have found smoking mothers were poorer and less educated than nonsmoking mothers. They would have found that poor kids are parked in day-care more than average. They would have found a higher rate of single parents in the smoking mothers, more siblings, weaker support system.
"Forty-seven percent were prenatally exposed to cigarettes. " Subjects were not a sample of the normal population.
"They also found that exposure to cigarette smoke was ***ociated with social, rather than emotional, aspects of early disruptive behavior. For instance, compared to non-exposed toddlers, exposed toddlers were significantly more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior and to stubbornly refuse to follow directions. They were also less likely to seek out and participate in playful social interactions with their mothers. However, they were no more likely to have temper outbursts or show high levels of irritability than non-exposed children." Poor socialization sounds like a learned behavior deficiency, not a function of brain chemistry. In other words, poor nurturing.
"PRSmith" prsm...@houston.rr.com
Sounds like you've got it all worked our, Dr. Robert. When will we get to see your paper published? Hmmmm?
ni ...@verizon.net
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When narrow-minded, intellectually bankrupt, opportunists like yourself are prepared to apply somel thought into what you are reading. Thus far you've demonstrated the uncanny ability to post items of which you have little understanding, or have not taken the time to read carefully and/or analyze. You gotta read more than the headline dumb***.
If you choose to remain ignorant and close-minded, keep your cut and pasting to the usually biased and self-serving junk propaganda. This way there are no pretenses on your part and you can unequivocally maintain your lamebrain status. If you run out of the silly stuff, call your gal pals Nits Watson and Babs Broughton, I'm sure they have closets full.
BTW, if "Dr. Robert" does publish a paper, who's going to ***ist you in understanding it?
Whatta doofus.
"SB" ben...@hedges.net
Thank god! The "Terrible Two's" have finally been explained!
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SB ...
"PRSmith" prsm...@houston.rr.com
And just what is it that *I* have to do with it? You seem to be an expert. Why don't we see some of your works rather than your half-***ed, non-scientific analysis in this forum? Oh, I forgot, it's because you're NOT an expert. It's because you trivialize the hard works of others. It's you who are the joke.
ni ...@verizon.net
LOL. Must have hit a soft spot(which could be anywhere on this goober's body).
Gee, PaulieRShmitty, watch your blood pressure.
Facts are facts - you're a lightweight. End of story.
Robert Wagner robert.nos...@wagner.net
You're saying only experts and authority figures can understand science. We common folk must take their word for everything. Our decisions are limited to choosing WHICH experts are most believable.
That might hold currency in your circle of trailer park cronies, but here on the internet you're a small fish in a very big pond .. an OCEAN full of people smarter than you. The arguments that work on your wife and friends will be blown out of the water here faster than your government can make up lies. If government is your only source, you're sunk.
Since you don't have the intellectual horsepower to keep up, which is obvious, go back to watching TV and drinking beer.
sin nombre n...@no.where
How many, that you know of, have you help as a result of your postings here?
sin nombre n...@no.where
Why do you not care about him versus other people?
Spoken like a politician.
sin nombre n...@no.where
Right after yours. When will that be?
sin nombre n...@no.where
Are YOU an expert? Or do you just cut-and-paste articles that you do not understand, not knowing if they are true or false?
sin nombre n...@no.where
Ohhhh! Paul just got bitched slapped by Robert! And Robert is usually much nicer. I wonder what it was that Paul did?
sin nombre n...@no.where
Damn Nizo, how is it you know these jokers better than they know themselves?
"PRSmith" prsm...@houston.rr.com
Not a clue. Is that relevant? Upwards of forty that I know of as a result of my smoking cessation workshops and many more as a result of the ETS bans. Lots. It's a great feeling.
"PRSmith" prsm...@houston.rr.com
Better educated than most on the subject but no, I wouldn't consider myself to be an expert. I just paste the articles as they appear in the hopes that people will be exposed to news they might not otherwise see.
Robert Wagner robert.nos...@wagner.net
Rereading my words, they DO sound like a bitch slap. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try to make my style more objective.
I'm straight but I know the nuances because I frequent neighborhoods and sub-cultures that are full of gays. They're harder working and more intelligent than average. They want the same things everyone wants, just with the wrong gender. That they're so feared and hated is simply wrong.
Robert Broughton rbrone...@broug8hton.ca
Actually, we don't care about you, either.
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Bob Broughton http://broughton.ca/ Vancouver, BC, Canada "It should be legal for a private maternity ward to permit smoking."
- Chuck Wright, May 22, 2006
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