I think part of the point about smoking by parent(s) is that smoking smells like home whether you are BF or Bot fed. Or any other smell that you connect with warm fuzzy feelings. Over the years I've noticed that different homes have different smells for whatever reason. I'm sure these smells speak to their family members and mean "home". I think it is a real stretch to say that a child will grow up and become a smoker just because mom smoked and BF. What about the feelings that mom would sit down, take a break and talk while she had a smoke? Remember, multiple, complex and interrelated. And of course the message needs to be Don't smoke - not Don't BF. But in our typical turn everything upside down way of reasoning today we say don't BF! AArrgghh. Sincerely, Pat in SNJ