WTF was up with THAT? Is this just me, or does that seem out of character for her?
Obviously I dont mean the simple fact that she was smoking, but the fact that she was smoking while shes pregnant...
She just strikes me as being more responsible than that.
Everyone smoked in the 60s.
shareThat's how it was in the 60s. The FDA didn't really come out with all the warnings or findings till the 70s. Mad Men even did a storyline about this as in the late 60s they started to find all the side effects smoking caused. At this point in this show no one would know that.
sharehmmmm. .. I guess I didnt kno... it was nearly 20 years before i was birn
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Yes “they” did know. There were studies linking smoking to lung cancer
as early as 1943. The first study I found about smoking and pregnancy
dates from . . . 1935 !! Shame on doctors and the judiciary system
that caved in to the tobacco industry for so long.
Sontag, L.W. ; Wallace, Robert F. The Effect of cigaret smoking
during pregnancy upon the fetal heart rate. American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, January 1935, Vol.29(1), pp.77-83
Simpson, Winea J. A Preliminary report on cigarette smoking and
the incidence of prematurity. American Journal of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, April 1957 Apr;73(4):807-15
Proctor, Robert N. The Shamful Past - The History of the discovery
of the cigarette–lung cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate
denial, global toll. Tob Control 2012;21:87-91
Did you also notice she had a large bottle of bourbon/scotch/whisky sitting on the table? Back in the '60's it was okay for pregnant women to smoke and drink.
How did we survive?
As Gomez Addams said. "I've smoked since I was five, Mother insisted!"
hahaha I vaguely remember...
...but did Gomez say that in the TV show? or one of the movies?
Cigarettes were actually advertised as a weight control aid for women back in those days! The health risks weren't known yet, especially its effect on fetuses.
shareAlso advertising use to run ads stating Doctors choose Such and Such Cigarettes because they find them more healthier
shareOn Mad Men, which tries to be authentic as possible, They had pregnant women smoking and drinking. Don's wife would even have a cigarette in her mouth while spoon feeding the youngest baby.
I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else