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[Cereal Kyller]

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[Proletariatprincess]

1. I don't buy it.

If this were true, there would be generations of people with learning and behavioral problems. More than half the population smoked at one time in the USA and smoking is much more prevelant in other countries than here now.
Cigarettes are bad for you. But they are not responsible for all the ills of society just because we now hate them. We didn't always, afterall.

[Scuba]

10. I buy it. The children of these smokers are now Republican leaders and Tea Party idiots. n/t

[KT2000]

2. Second hand smoke

is a collection of chemicals that vary with the brand of tobacco and cigarettes. It is also the chemicals being burned and formaldehyde.
Second hand smoke is not a singular chemical or product.
I would posit that a home filled with furniture and carpeting off-gassing high levels of formaldehyde, toluene, and others chemcials could affect children more.

Smoking studies are getting a lot of money. Some of the studies are not very good.

[ejpoeta]

3. i don't think so. my daughter has ADHD and I did not smoke during pregnancy

and no one smoked around her except the babysitter. It did cause bronchial problems during the time I sent her there which stopped as soon as she stopped going, but I don't buy this argument about the secondhand smoke= ADHD argument. There are so many chemicals and other things in the enviroment and also heredity to prove causation or even correlation.

[eilen]

4. BS. Crappy parenting causes behavioral problems nt

[RantinRavin]

5. Both of my parents were regular smokers

From before I was born until after I moved out on my own and I have no problems at all.

Oh look....squirrel !!!

[ixion]

6. More BS propaganda from anti-smoking extremists

they should be ashamed of themselves, but their extremists, so they're not.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

7. Load of Bull. nt

[bigworld]

8. People who smoke around their kids (or while pregnant) are more likely to...

engage in other unhealthful actions as well, or just be uncaring parents. I'm no academic, but it may not just be the smoking.

[KurtNYC]

9. 2nd hand smoking is like being given drugs on someone else's schedule

nicotine is a powerful stimulant and it can be used to stay awake, be more alert or delay eating. The children are not in control of the timing of when the stimulant is administered.

Possibly ADHD in these kids is nicotine withdrawals. They would probably perform better if they could smoke/chew or patch during school.