In a message dated 8/7/01 11:42:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> the American Society for
> Reproductive Medicine asks men and women in their 20s and 30s to curb
> smoking, drinking and using drugs.  The ads also say that people could have
> trouble conceiving children if they've contracted sexually transmitted
> diseases such a gonorrhea.....The groug will use provocative bus ads to
> reach young adults.  One ad, depicting a baby bottle with a cigarette in it,
> reads, "If You Smoke This Might Be Your Only Use for a Baby's Bottle."
>
> Arrrggggggghhhh!
>
> Barb Berges BS, RN, IBCLC
>

That's what I said when I saw it on the Today Show this week. They showed
several ads, ALL using baby bottles as the eye catching graphic!

Maybe some breastfeeding advocates should start an ad campaign featuring a
baby bottle, but use it in a negative way. "Feature a mom & baby/toddler
breastfeeding talking to a mom bottlefeeding her baby in the pediatrician's
office. Breastfeeding mom says she only comes in yearly for well baby exams.
Bottle-feeding mom says she is here every month & just doesn't understand why
her baby is sick so often. Large print says formula fed babies are sick more
often than those who are breastfed."

Laura Hart
Winter Park, FL

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