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Why are women allowed to smoke while pregnant?

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  • 13-07-2019 12:00pm
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    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭


    Isn't this damaging?


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    It's damaging, and incredibly stupid in my opinion, and I'm sure others will agree.


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    #3
    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    It's when the women start to smoke during sex you should get worried.

    The solution of course, is to slow down a bit and use lubricant.


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    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,806 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Because cigarettes make too much money for the gubbermint and the powerful people connected to it, so banning them outright or enforcing smoking bans, even on pregnant women, will be detrimental to their bank balances.


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    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    Isn't this damaging?

    Ask your mother.


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    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭ZilkyG


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Ask your mother.

    Wow! Aren't you just the funniest?


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    jay1988
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭jay1988


    Their body, their choice?

    Not that I agree with women smoking while pregnant, I don't think anybody has any right to step in and stop them.


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    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    Those E cigs are grand though so no harm being done.


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    #9
    fatknacker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Why are women even allowed to do anything?


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    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    Those E cigs are grand though so no harm being done.

    First they were vaping the cannabis, now they're vaping the E...


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    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,871 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    jay1988 wrote: »
    Their body, their choice?

    What about the baby they are growing, does that not get a choice? Do you think that smoking around others is OK? Because smoking while pregnant is forcing another person to smoke.


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,435 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Personally it turns my stomach to see it.

    I've heard it said however that the stress of not smoking for the mother could be just as hazardous for the baby as actually smoking.

    Who knows.


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    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    Sure and ban the drinking as well while you're at it - all that alcohol in the system can't be good for the new baba. Problem is that you can put bans on these sort of things but you can never implement them, so they're worthless.


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    Osborne
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Osborne


    Del2005 wrote: »
    What about the baby they are growing, does that not get a choice? Do you think that smoking around others is OK? Because smoking while pregnant is forcing another person to smoke.

    The poster literally answers your question in the very post you quoted. You only quoted half of it. Weird.


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    jay1988
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭jay1988


    Del2005 wrote: »
    What about the baby they are growing, does that not get a choice? Do you think that smoking around others is OK? Because smoking while pregnant is forcing another person to smoke.

    If you had read the rest of my post you'd see I've already said I don't agree with it but we have full bodily autonomy these days so its not my place or anybody else's to tell any woman what she can or can't do, pregnant or not.


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    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    There mostly from a certain social level the women who smoke while pregnant. I mean let's say you'd see breaded chicken in their trolleys in the local supermarket.


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,435 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    There mostly from a certain social level the women who smoke while pregnant. I mean let's say you'd see breaded chicken in their trolleys in the local supermarket.

    I bet they can't use their/there/they're properly either.

    Peasants.


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    jay1988
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭jay1988


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    There mostly from a certain social level the women who smoke while pregnant. I mean let's say you'd see breaded chicken in their trolleys in the local supermarket.

    what a dickish post, anyways what type of creep is walking around supermarkets to see what certain people have in their trolleys?


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    Osborne
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Osborne


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    There mostly from a certain social level the women who smoke while pregnant. I mean let's say you'd see breaded chicken in their trolleys in the local supermarket.

    Even the cornfed, organic chicken goujons from Donnybrook Fair? Fcuk.


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    SteM
    Registered Users Posts: 6,529 ✭✭✭SteM


    Always shocked when I'm on the bus going past the combe and see heavily pregnant women standing outside in their dressing gowns smoking.


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    #21
    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    jay1988 wrote: »
    what a dickish post, anyways what type of creep is walking around supermarkets to see what certain people have in their trolleys?

    Me there's no chicken at all in those things aswell I nearly hold my nose passing some of them.


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    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,454 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Sky King wrote: »
    It's when the women start to smoke during sex you should get worried.

    The solution of course, is to slow down a bit and use lubricant.

    You'd have sex with a smoker? That's sad.


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,435 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    SteM wrote: »
    Always shocked when I'm on the bus going past the combe and see heavily pregnant women standing outside in their dressing gowns smoking.

    It's disgusting. Empty goujon trays littered around them too. Scum.


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    volchitsa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    Isn't this damaging?

    So having tried to ban breastfeeding women from the public sphere, the OP now wants to control pregnant women.

    Given the direction he's headed, will his next OP suggest women shouldn't be allowed to use contraception without the man's permission? Or shouldn't be allowed to refuse sex to a man?


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    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    I don't agree with smoking while pregnant (for what it's worth, I'm neither a mother or a smoker) but asking why women are 'allowed' to smoke while pregnant?

    How exactly do you plan to police them OP?


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    #26
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,207 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Under his eye

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    #27
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,108 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    Under his eye

    Praise Be.

    Why are men allowed drink alcohol when some of them become violent and beat people up?

    OP trolling away in Parenting too.


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    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    Isn't this damaging?

    extremely damaging. deprives of oxygen .


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    #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Their bodies. Their choice.


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    #30
    MrFresh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭MrFresh


    I'd like to see some civil suits brought by children affected by women who smoke, drink or do drugs while pregnant. There should also be a big information campaign about the potential side effects on children so nobody is in any doubt what they are doing.


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    #31
    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Being pregnant is both stressful and incredibly uncool.

    Smoking helps with both.


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