The damaging effects of jackhammers?
 

I'd think this woman should be concerned about more than just jackhammers.... :confused:

Misguided concern

I wonder if the photographer did that deliberately? If he or she waited for that perfect shot of her holding the cigarette. I mean you can't possibly miss it, and there's no mistaking it for a pen.

Hilarious.

she is such a dumbass

I hope the outcome is not so stupid

PHOTOSHOPPED

Looks pretty fucking real to me...

Seen that on Jay Leno a while ago. It's real.

This is kinda old news, its not photoshopped

Wonder if she finished her beer, or left it on the porch?

Looks like someone is trying to plant the seeds of a future lawsuit.

Ahhh... stupid people always make my day!

Really? Well, I'm Australian so please forgive me for being slow on the uptake.

I would say her smoking is going to harm her child more than a jackhammer.

It looked really shopped to me, but upon a bit of research, it's legit. Now, here's HER side of the story:
http://search.roanoke.com/dtSearch/d...%5fform%2ehtml

Hey...thanks for that! I guess she just didn't realise the ramifications the picture would have, hey? I didn't see it on Leno (we don't get that on free-to-air here), but I can imagine what was said. Interesting how the baby was underweight at birth ("Emmett III weighed 5 pounds, 2 ounces at birth")...hhmmm...

WT to the max.

Oi vey. Unbelievable. I have to agree with the people who said they just don't care. IT SAYS ON CIGARETTE PACKAGES THAT IT IS HARMFUL TO A FETUS. I don't care about her excuses--she should have quit immediately upon becoming pregnant. Gah. I see so many women in my own life go through so much to have children...and then people like this--people on disability and public assistance--have no problem having kids. Grrrr. That irritates me as much as the smoking.

Hey, give her a break! She cut back from 2 packs day... to half a pack a day. :crazy:

Two of the couples quotes in the article posted by thinktank really stuck out.

The father: ' One online wit suggested that Emmett III's father really was her uncle. The remark infuriated Emmett Jr., who called it "slander, big-time, on a person." ' maybe he meant to say "libel, big-time, on a person."

The mother: ' "We don't allow no smoking in the house at all," Muse said, emphatically. ' Obviously we know this child will not certainly not be brought up in an unintelligent household.

my wifes step-cousin smoked during her entire pregnancy, she recently gave birth to a surprisely health baby. i've only met the fool once before, so over the holidays she was going to be at one of the family dinners i had to attend. she was 9 months pregs when we had the dinner, my wife and some other family members asked me not to say anything negative about her smoking (her smoking and how complete shitty and fucking retarded it is, had been a topic at nearly every family dinner with my inlaws everyone yells at her about it).......
well i could not help myself. i had to say something. i just gotta, it was an itch and it needed to be scratched. after dinner, it was me, her husband, her mom and my wife clearing the table, and i had to ask if she had planned on giving the baby the "patch" once it was born, or if she was worried about the smokers cough the kid might have. she laughed. after i picked my jaw up off the floor i secretly wished that her baby would be born with all kinds of birth defects...etc but that was out of spite, i am glad the kid was health, against all fucking odds. damn what a dumb bitch. useless. btw its a cousin inlaw. thank god no blood lines involved.

what really makes me cry is this is the paper we get back home and I'm actually working right now over the holidays two streets over.

Yet were the state to charge her with child abuse or make her practice birth control in order to get assistance, everyone and their uncle would be fighting for her civil liberties. Strange huh?

jack hammers will be found to have little to no damage on unborn fetus's.. my wife works as a heavy machinary operator and while preganant with my oldest boy drove a front end loader evrey day for almost the whole term.. and there was no apparent damage. to him.. id say this obvious piece of white trash is not under any strenous conditions sititng on her couch..

i think the underlying question here is who would impregnate her?