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Pregnant women smoking and drinking

  • 24-04-2012 03:36PM
    #1
    LorraineMcFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭


    As its now illegal to smoke indoors in a public place should we also make it illegal for pregnant mothers to smoke and drink alcohol.?
    Going on all the studies suggesting it seriously harms the unborn child.


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  • #2
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    Absolutely, great idea.


  • #3
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    I don't agree with smoking while pregnant, but at the end of the day - it's there body so there choice


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    No it should be a personal choice. If it's made illegal pregnant mothers will flock to the UK to smoke.


  • #5
    General Relativity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭General Relativity


    Government control on our private affairs is not a good idea.


  • #6
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    LorraineMcFly wrote: »
    As its now illegal to smoke indoors in a public place should we also make it illegal for pregnant mothers to smoke and drink alcohol.?
    Going on all the studies suggesting it seriously harms the unborn child.

    Is it harmful for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol? Obviously, getting pissed out of her head at eight months, yes, but - complete abstinance?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #7
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    My mother smoke and drank when she was pregnant and there's nothing wrong with me.

    In fact, I quite enjoy my 3rd testicle.


  • #8
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    LorraineMcFly wrote: »
    As its now illegal to smoke indoors in a public place should we also make it illegal for pregnant mothers to smoke and drink alcohol.?
    Going on all the studies suggesting it seriously harms the unborn child.

    How do you propose that bar/off-licence staff police that one?


  • #9
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    make it illegal if you want, its not gonna change a thing


  • #10
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    They shouldn't be allowed have kids at all herp!!

    Cut off their hands and sew up their mouths derp!!


  • #11
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    LorraineMcFly wrote: »
    As its now illegal to smoke indoors in a public place should we also make it illegal for pregnant mothers to smoke and drink alcohol.?
    Going on all the studies suggesting it seriously harms the unborn child.


    Yes and when a woman gets pregnant she gets her own personal garda to enforce this.


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  • #12
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    To be fair if the pregnant woman is smoking, the child is f*cked from the get-go.


  • #13
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    While any pregnant woman with sense will not smoke or drink. Outlawing them from drinking or smoking might be seen as a little bit of discrimination


  • #14
    LorraineMcFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭LorraineMcFly


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Is it harmful for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol? Obviously, getting pissed out of her head at eight months, yes, but - complete abstinance?
    Well your now told in maternity hospital not to even have one drink, so thats all i can go on. That even one drink can increase the risk of SIDS. Im 5 months pregnant at the moment.


  • #15
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Didn't the Surgeon General recently release a statement that one standard glass of wine would do no harm to an unborn baby?

    Too lazy to look for links but I definitely remember there being some discussion about in the Media.


  • #16
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    anyways does nobody remember the 80's, all the babys were drunk in the womb in that decade :)

    after they ban it, it will be coffee next then fcukin sugar, lets just let people do what they want without making criminals out of them


  • #17
    LorraineMcFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭LorraineMcFly


    c_man wrote: »
    How do you propose that bar/off-licence staff police that one?
    Impossible id say, im not saying im in favour of it! just wondering what peoples opinions are!


  • #18
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i am so glad i am a male.


  • #19
    Owen_S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    How would this be enforced? I can see many fat women getting offended when being asked to put out their cigarette.


  • #20
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    FatherLen wrote: »
    i am so glad i am a male.

    Testicular Cancer.

    :(


  • #21
    LorraineMcFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭LorraineMcFly


    xzanti wrote: »
    Didn't the Surgeon General recently release a statement that one standard glass of wine would do not harm to an unborn baby?

    Too lazy to look for links but I definitely remember there being some discussion about in the Media.
    I think your right i heard that too, but i have been told in limerick Regional not to even have one glass. Im a non drinker anyway, so its not an issue for me.


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  • #22
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    If you handed your three year old a cigarette and put vodka in their juice bottle, you'd get done for child abuse. And a three year old is far more developed than a teeny tiny baby.

    I wish that the women who smoke and drink (or are around other smokers) during pregnancy knew better, but as some of them don't give a sh!t about their baby, I think the law should step in.


  • #23
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    I know it's not exactly easy to enforce, but I think it's pretty ridiculous that our society deems it illegal for a 17 year old to purchase a can of lager, but legal for a pregnant woman to buy 40 Marloro and a bottle of vodka.


  • #24
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Imagine if the mammies of Einstein / Da Vinci / Aristotle had known about this information. Their children wouldn't have been such a letdown.


  • #25
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    LOL
    This will be utterly impossible to enforce, a stupid OP.

    Besides smoking is bad for the body, so it is bad for diseases as well.


  • #26
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    LorraineMcFly wrote: »
    As its now illegal to smoke indoors in a public place should we also make it illegal for pregnant mothers to smoke and drink alcohol.?
    Going on all the studies suggesting it seriously harms the unborn child.

    I don't think it should be made illegal, no. There's no way to really police it.

    Besides, a glass of wine every now and then isn't going to do any harm.

    I do think it would be a good idea if the health boards could provide quit-smoking packs and aids free of charge to pregnant women who smoke. Even when pregnant, it's a very hard habit to break.


  • #27
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    A womans body a womans right, right?


  • #28
    LorraineMcFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭LorraineMcFly


    It is horrible to see heavily pregnant women at the first stages of labour outside the regional in their housecoats smoking.


  • #29
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Testicular Cancer.

    :(

    aww no! why?!?


  • #30
    Spunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    Im pro-choice.


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  • #31
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Spunge wrote: »
    Im pro-choice.

    You mean you're pro-SIDS.


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