Political correctness,agendaism gone wild on smoking

Opinion :  Smokers' kids in crime link

Smokers are already treated like criminals -- and now, researchers are taking it a step further: They say the kids of smokers really ARE criminals!

A new study makes the ludicrous claim that children born to women who smoke heavily during pregnancy are 30 percent more likely to be arrested multiple times.

That's right -- if you had the nerve to enjoy a smoke during pregnancy, your kid is going to jail.

Why wait for the crime? Arrest any kid born in a tobacco cloud, right now!

Researchers looked at data on 3,766 adults whose mothers took part in a study between 1959 and 1966, when many of them happily puffed away during pregnancy without the dirty stares and nasty judgments.

Until now, anyway -- because researchers were happy to pass judgment in the pages of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, where they said kids born to women with a pack-a-day habit were nearly a third more likely to have multiple arrests on their record.

But this study is the research equivalent of a baby only its mother could love. There are so many flaws with it that I don't even know where to begin, but let me start with the most obvious one: The children in this study were born in an age when nearly everyone smoked, including 62 percent of their mothers.

In other words, barely a third of the women were non-smokers, which attaches disproportionate significance to each child they produce who is or isn't arrested.

What's more, the researchers didn't look at convictions -- just arrests.

For all we know, kids born to non-smokers could have fewer arrests, but more convictions -- or maybe they're like Wall Street brokers: They're simply better at not getting caught in the first place.

In any case, we've reached a point where smokers don't need to do anything to be considered a criminal -- because just lighting up in the first place, even in your own home, is turning into a crime.

Maybe you and your kid will do time together.

Catch me if you can,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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