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Scientists know that children of women who smoke during pregnancy can develop hearing-related cognitive deficits. For the first time, researchers believe they have evidence that not only implicates nicotine as the culprit, but also shows what the substance does to the brain to cause these deficits.

In a study using rats...

“This study is significant because it suggests to us precisely..."

About the Study: In the study, the researchers treated one group of one-week-old rats with nicotine and another group with saline, for five consecutive days.

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I hope they weren't giving the saline so the rats wouldn't be able to figure out which test group they were in. ROFL
 
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"I hope they weren't giving the saline so the rats wouldn't be able to figure out which test group they were in. ROFL"

ROTFLMAO Big Grin I'll be laughin' about that for days!! You really crack me up squeezer!
 
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1. The rats were NOT exposed in the womb.

2. ADD and ADHD disorders are described the same way this research is.

3. Dependance of any substance or enviroment will decrease any beings resources to respond

4. I believe this study would also point to the increased incidence of alheismers in the elderly who were brainwashed to give up smoking while in middle age.

5. The researchers did not show what dose of nicotine was given in relationship to human exposure or consumption.

My conslusion from the study is the researchers created rats with add and/or adhd conditions.

I feel I have these conditions and rely on tobacco to treat them. Sound is only one stimulant that I would ignore without tobacco. Without nicotine from tobacco all of my reflexes are slower, I am in a vegitative state unable to concentrate on any stimulation. I hear it but I am not able to respond as quickly as I am able to while smoking. I am trying to retain what I was doing or saying before the stimulation.

Hearing is only one sense available to humans, our brains reacte to all concurrently. The question is how fast our brains react. Nicotine, like ridalin, speeds up that process.

The drug companies wish I would use their product in lieu of tobacco to correct the problem. Cigarettes cost a seventh of the price of ridalin and I enjoy it.

This research could be used in a class action suit against the medical professions cause to get tobacco products out the hands of the elderly.
 
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Originally posted by Bruce:
1. The rats were NOT exposed in the womb.


That's a pretty big difference. Further, even an adult smoker can overdose on nicotine (I did once, when I forgot I had a patch), let alone a baby or embryo. With the level of fraud from anti-tobacco "research", I wouldn't be surprised they exposed baby rats with a human equivalent of few hundred cigarettes per day.

Since they are also suggesting that nicotine patches are a hazard during pregnancy, the "scientists" may be tied (via grants & consulting fees for their other "research") to anti-depressant manufacturers. These are trying to compete with nicotine replacement "therapy" (not very successfuly). How handy for them that nictine patches are problematic, too.
 
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Since they are also suggesting that nicotine patches are a hazard during pregnancy, the "scientists" may be tied (via grants & consulting fees for their other "research") to anti-depressant manufacturers . These are trying to compete with nicotine replacement "therapy" (not very successfully). How handy for them that nictine patches are problematic, too.


Speaking of the devil, interesting coincidence - the news story today about risks of anti-depressants to unborn babies:

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FDA warns of risks of antidepressants during pregnancy
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The manufacturers of Prozac and other antidepressants should include prescribing information about an uncommon but life-threatening lung problem that affects babies born to mothers who take the drugs during pregnancy, health officials said Wednesday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it had asked the companies to add information about the possible risk of the lung disorder, called persistent pulmonary hypertension. Meanwhile, the agency said it is seeking more information about the risk.

Babies with the disorder have high pressure in the blood vessels of their lungs and are not able to get enough oxygen into their bloodstream, the FDA said.

One or two babies per 1,000 in the U.S. develop the disorder shortly after birth. However, infants whose mothers took antidepressants in the second half of pregnancy had six times the expected risk of developing the lung disorder, researchers reported in a study published Feb. 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

That report came out days after the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that illustrated the potential risk of relapsed depression in women who stopped taking prescribed antidepressants during pregnancy.

The two studies worried many women, since they implied there are risks in pregnancy to both continuing on the medications and not.

Women who are pregnant or who are thinking about getting pregnant and take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors should not stop taking the antidepressants without first talking to a doctor, the FDA said in a public health advisory intended for doctors and patients. The drugs, also called SSRIs, include Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Lexapro.

The FDA said it would further update the labels of the drugs as additional information becomes available.


It seems the anti-depressant peddlers had ready and were just waiting to push the other story, the fraud about nicotine patches on rat babies, just at the right moment to cancel out some of the negative PR from the FDA report on the real hazards of their junk to unborn babies. That would be a pretty typical counter-offensive move from these schemers.
 
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Originally posted by AbbyL:
ROTFLMAO Big Grin I'll be laughin' about that for days!! You really crack me up squeezer!

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