Because it seems that smoking during pregnancy does not cause the more important outcomeshttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194213/ …
If smoking during pregnancy causes lower birth weight but not things such as crime, cognitive ability, mental illness, do we really care?
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given all the health effects we know happen to smoker we should presumably be skeptical there aren't other effects on child
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On the other hand, large studies found that few if any effects of smoking crack... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure …
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yes, we probably still care. Those outcomes are not great.
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Low birth weight? What's the problem with that if it's unrelated to ADHD, crime, academic achievement etc.?
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lots of health stuff, short term and long term http://www.marchofdimes.org/complications/low-birthweight.aspx …
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