July 12, 2011
A life of smoking is no longer linked to low birth weights or complications during pregnancy. A new study of 50,000 pregnant women found that those who found out that they were pregnant and quit smoking from the news are just as likely to give birth to normal, healthy children as a woman who has ...
June 8, 2011
Apparently daddies have quite a large role in their daughter’s prenatal process after all. A study of 1000 post-menopausal Japanese women asked a series of questions about the time when their periods stopped and past histories of smoking family members. Those whose fathers were smokers while they were in their mothers’ wombs wound up going ...
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February 24, 2010
A new stop smoking ad suggests an analogy between fellatio and smoking. The intentionally shocking images have caused a furor in France. The ads show older men pushing their hands on the heads of the young man and woman kneeling before them. The cigarettes are in the same position the penis would be. The tag-line ...