Medicine: Unborn Smokers

Physiologists agree that smoking does no more harm to a woman than to a man, if harm there be. According to many investigators, the only circumstances under which a woman should not smoke are while she has anesthetic gas in her lungs (she might explode), and while she produces milk for her baby. Milk drains from the blood of a smoking mother those smoke ingredients which please her, but may not agree with her nursling.

Might smoking disagree with a baby before it was born? asked Antioch College's Drs. Lester Warren Sontag and...

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