(this is amended)Outside my (current, hopefully not for much longer) maternity hospital.
Woman in her nightgown and robe, clearly in the early stages of labour, standing outside to have a cigarette.
Sums up much of the health attitude here.
Different and somewhat Mortifying.
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P.S. As an amendment to this posting, it not that women in the US don't smoke while pregnant, it is perhaps that they hide it more. This is in no way meant to slander my adopted home of bonnie Scotland, where I have been welcomed so nicely. It is perhaps more of a reflection of the specific neighbourhood and attitude of certain areas in Glasgow.
(am I out of trouble now?)
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