One study, perhaps the most outrageous, done at the University of Pennsylvania, found that smoking mothers caused their own babies’ webbed fingers and toes. (12) These are the same deformities that are notorious effects of Agent Orange spraying in Vietnam. Researchers did not seem to know about Agent Orange or chlorine or dioxin. No news reporter raised that question either. Dioxin, in chlorine-contaminated cigarettes online smoke or elsewhere, was not even considered as a probable or likely or already-known cause of such problems. Chlorine tobacco pesticides, duly registered by the U.S. government, are not secret, and the chlorine-bleached cigarette paper is not hidden from view. Even people shopping for bathroom tissue know that chlorine-bleached paper is to be avoided for many health and environmental reasons. Not those Penn researchers.
It was as if they studied gunshot victims and failed to look for bullets, guns, or shooters. If the Medici’s hire their own investigators, that’s what you get.
Barely a week goes by that mainstream media do not report studies that essentially blame mothers for causing yet another health problem for themselves or their fetuses or their children. Mothers from Hell, we are to presume. Tobacco plants, of course, from Mother Nature, are also blamed…though the fact that tobacco is a natural plant is never noted. The word “tobacco” is considered synonymous with “discount cigarettes“, even to the point that we read about “tobacco manufacturers.” Some day we may hear about “cigarette growers.”