Smoking in pregnancy risks psychotic children

I found this story on MSNBC News.
British scientist, on Thursday, said, "Mothers who smoke during pregnangy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms as teenagers." There were 4 British Universities, who took 6,356 children, all 12 years old, to interview for psychotic-like symptoms that include hallucinations and/or delusions. Other studies have shown that a mother smoking while pregnant, can harm the fetus. Smoking can cause the fetus to be born smaller, increase the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), and also heart defects. Researchers also found that a woman who drank more than 21 units of alcohol per week while pregnant, would also increase psychotic symptoms in teenagers. Zammit and colleagues suggested that "exposure to tobacco in the womb might affect a child's impulsivity, attention or cognition."

My first reaction to this story was how mothers should not smoke while pregnant. As I read, I believe the report is something somebody made up to get attention to their schools in London.

Mothers who smoke while pregnant are putting their fetus at risk. Babies can't handle the flu's or anything else we, as adults, get. My son, when he was 3 months old, ended up in the emergency room for RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). The doctors told me it was from having too much mucous getting in his lungs. Because babies cannot cough mucous up like we can, nor can babies sniffle it up their noses. So something that would have just been a cold for adults, became a hospital visit for an infant. There are so many other things out there that babies cannot handle. So smoking while pregnant is a dumb thing to do. Everything a pregnant woman puts into her own body, goes to the baby's body as well. If a mother wants to smoke, good for her, at least wait until the pregnancy is over so you don't risk your baby's health. However, this report about smoking while pregnant causes psychoticness in teenagers....bull crap, in my opinion. If you read this report, you'll see how bad the information is. It said 19% of these 12 year old kids had mothers who smoked while pregnant with them....but....just over 11% of the total kids had "suspected" or "definite" symptoms of psychosis. The numbers don't even add up. 19% had smoking mothers, 11% are crazy...??? So that means that 8% had mothers who smoked while they were pregnant, and their children are completely normal. So basically the study is not really a good proven research project. The report also states how, "the reason for the link between maternal smoking and psychotic symptoms are not clear, but Zammit and colleagues suggested that exposure to tobacco in the womb might affect a child's impulsivity, attention, or cognition." So in other words, their clueless. The sympotms are "not clear" but Zammit and colleagues "suggested" that tobacco in the womb "might" affect those three things.

This report somewhere in it, might have a good cause for the research they've done. However, I believe this story was horribly written, the data and numbers were way off, and it makes the universities that put time into this, look like they are full of crap. Maybe I miss-read something, or maybe I just took it the wrong way. Hopefully, woman who are pregnant, put their baby first, and make sure they do not smoke while pregnant.