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To: The Philosopher who wrote (44502)	7/8/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

hmmm- doesn't affect the daughters? Something is clearly defective with male brain chemistry. I think we have a product liability issue here. Perhaps a recall of males is in order?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (44502)	7/8/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I wonder about that study. A group of prepubescent boys whose mothers smoked is a select group. It will have a larger proportion of mothers who didn't know that, for the sake of their child, they shouldn't smoke while pregnant; or who didn't care; or who knew and cared but felt unable to control the smoking behavior, than will a group of prepubescent boys whose mothers did stop smoking during pregnancy. Unless this fact was controlled for, and I'd hate to have to design a study that managed to do that, I would tend to look with a degree of suspicion on the conclusion that it was nicotine that was responsible for the anti-social behavior of these women's sons. Did the study look for effects on daughters and find none, or not look, do you know? That would be interesting to know.