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[quote=Anonymous]My mother smoked a pack a day during pregnancy with me and my sister, and she continued to smoke a pack a day throughout our childhood.  My sister got her PhD from Harvard in theoretical physics and I got my PharmD from UCSF.  We never had asthma or other breathing problems.  I guess we were kind of lucky.  Smoking during pregnancy raises the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth and after birth SIDS.  I haven’t read anything about it affecting intellectual development though, but if it did then maybe my sister and I were meant to be smarter XD

That being said, most babies will still be fine.  Smoking is an addiction, and my father who was an alcoholic said it was harder to quit cigarettes than alcohol.  I get why you are upset but it’s not your baby so let it go.  If someone continually harassed my mother she would have cut them off and still continued to smoke.  I have tried to get my own mother to quit multiple times, but it never did anything but upset her, so I’ve accepted it.  If you want a relationship with your cousin you just have to accept it to a certain degree. Otherwise cut off contact and leave her alone.  Harassing her will not get her to quit, and will just make her hate you. [/quote]

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