Mon, 01 Aug 2005

Bad behaviour 'linked to smoking'

Here's another Study in Stupidity:

A team at the Institute of Psychiatry, in London, sent questionnaires to the parents of 723 identical twins and 1,173 non-identical twins.

The parents were asked to provide information on their own smoking habits and on their children's behaviour.

Behaviour was classed as anti-social if the child bullied others, often destroyed his or her own or others' belongings, had a habit of stealing things, often told lies or was frequently disobedient.

A third of the mothers said they had smoked during pregnancy. Overall, a small minority of the children had anti-social behaviour or ADHD - 4-11%.

So we have a study of something like 2000 families in the UK, with something less than 10% of the kids having behavior problems while something like 33% of the mothers smoked during pregnancy... so smoking obviously is the culprit behind being naughty!!

Of course it's not a good idea to smoke (or drink or take any drug) when you're pregnant, but we certainly don't need well funded (by the anti-tobacco lobby, I'm sure) like this idiotic one to prove it. Common sense will suffice - except I think that's become less and less common, as evidenced by idiotic studies like this!

Women who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of their child being unruly, say UK researchers.

(link) [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

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