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Originally Posted by FlyingTrue

Those 9-10 months are the period of time where the baby is actually, how should I put it, being born? Developing? Being created from scratch?

Here are statistics:
http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/toba...Rpregnancy.htm

Again, that site is just a list of possibilities without any real hard numbers.

Originally Posted by FlyingTrue

In my opinion, smoking is wrong, period. Especially during pregnancy, that is completely, and utterly, unacceptable by any means. There is no logical reason why people would do something which has no purpose except to damage their own health. What especially makes it bad is when people do it it puts my own health at risk because it goes right into the air. When people do this I feel, heck they aren't giving a care about their own health, why would they give a care about the health of others? Or is this a futile attempt to declare invincibility? What is the mentality behind this bad smoking thing?

Of course there is no logical reason to smoke during pregnancy, but it's not about logic. Smoking is an addiction, and a very strong one at that! You can't just brush off the fact that it's so addicting. There are people who nearly die from lung cancer and still continue to smoke because they are so addicted.

I do not advocate smoking during pregnancy at all, but I think there should be some understanding for women who do smoke while pregnant. They usually aren't horrible awful people that don't care about their kid. The risks are minimal to moderate, and the addiction is strong.