Poor Chrissie

[crystal**flake]

7 months pregnant and got caught lighting up a ciggie, now all the ferals are out attacking her.

[cherry*135]

People comment that mothers smoked through pregnancy years ago and their babies were fine.. which may be the case.. but it doesn't account for babies that sadly didn't make it.. miscarriages.. smoking can increase the chance of miscarriage and still born babies.

[2106greencat]

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How is it anyone elses business?

If it is in the media it becomes anyones business... do you really expect no-one to ever comment on stories in the media?

She is the one that has approached the media (after seeing a professional photographer take a photo of her smoking in her car)... she has given her story... people are going to comment...

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I was actually commenting on

She 'said' she smokes 5 cigarettes a week, why should anyone believe that.

When I said 'Whose business is it' I was referring to the insinuation that she was lying. I find that offensive to her, she may have been telling the truth, and whose business is it to question her honesty.

[aspie*mum]

I do understand addiction. 

And my personal view and opinion is that people who are too selfish to give up cigarettes when pregnant, should not have children.  That goes for all addiction that harm unborn and once birthed children.

Pregnancies are better off terminated than born with serious health issues that cause them a life of pain and misery.

I work with children who suffer from the actions of such selfish parents.  Day in and day out.  Children born with serious health issues - physical and mental - simply because of the selfish actions of their parents.

Comparing me having a boyfriend to a person who uses drugs when pregnant is one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard.  It really shows a lack of maturity, integrity, understanding and intelligence on the poster's part.

[cherry*135]

i dont get why she was sneak smoking in her car?

Im assuming there are times she has her kids in the car.

Cars who have owners who smoke in them stink of smoke

She said she smoked on the way home from work, 5 days a week. When she was always alone, no-one (presumably) to see her do it. If she stood outside the building where she workedd or anywhere else in public she would have been seen by others.

I think the car would smell too, her breath might as well and her clothes may soak up a bit of the smell as well. Perhaps she always cleaned her teeth as soon as she got home!

‘Well, two days ago a photographer followed me in my car after work and took a photo of me having that sneaky cigarette - it was my first for the week. I begged for the photographers not to run the story because I know how bad it looks.

Surely she is not that newsworthy that photographers follow her home on a regular basis. I think someone who suspected she smoked in her car on the way home, must have tipped them off.

[cherry*135]

How is it anyone elses business?

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I was actually commenting on

She 'said' she smokes 5 cigarettes a week, why should anyone believe that.

When I said 'Whose business is it' I was referring to the insinuation that she was lying. I find that offensive to her, she may have been telling the truth, and whose business is it to question her honesty.

Ummm.. err. the whole basis of this story is that she wasn't honest.. she was deceiving her partner and her close friends and her family.

If she can deceive them, then is not an unreasonable suggestion that now she has been caught out (to her horror), that when she says she only smokes one a day for 5 days a week... that that may not be totally honest either.. it could be, it might not be.

We can question anyones honesty can't we? When we read a story in the media?

Suckers if you believe everything you read in a newspaper.

[cherry*135]

Comparing me having a boyfriend to a person who uses drugs when pregnant is one of the most .....  things I have ever heard.  It really shows a lack of maturity, integrity, understanding and intelligence on the poster's part.

I agree100%.

[daydream**believer]

People comment that mothers smoked through pregnancy years ago and their babies were fine.. which may be the case.. but it doesn't account for babies that sadly didn't make it.. miscarriages.. smoking can increase the chance of miscarriage and still born babies.

exactly.

I have two friends who smoked during their pregnancys and still smoke in their house now and both their babies were born very underweight and one now suffers terribly with asthma.

Yet both will say that smoking while pregnant didnt affect their babies

[givemeaspell]

she has admitted she was wrong to smoke, from what they were saying on TV this morning with her 2 other children she had given up before falling pregnant, this time wasn't planned so she had trouble giving up.  I only hope she can give up, people should be giving her support and encouraging her to give up not abusing her.  If this doesn't make her give up smoking then nothing will.    People are in denial if they believe it cannot harm their baby, and who would take that risk?  I've never been a smoker but OH has although he never smoked in the house and after much nagging from me kicked the habbit about 5 years ago, he said even those horrific images on packets don't put a smoker off.  It's as strong an addiction as heroin apparently. 

[crystal**flake]

I did smoke when I was pregnant with my kids (twins) they came on time, not early, nice weight and now grown, not one allergy.

I do think heavy smoking can do some awful things though.

[daydream**believer]

i agree, she needs support but i imagine all the stress that has now put on her are going to make it even harder for her to quit