Can Nicorette Be Righteous?

As we've given ever-deeper thought to our nation's distressingly high infant morality rate, we've started to wonder how best to address the problem. Everything we've read in recent days seems to indicate that the rate could be dramatically lowered if more expectant mothers took better care of their bodies—specifically by quitting smoking, which pretty clearly results in low birth weights (and thus increased risk of death in the first year of life).

But we realize those cancer sticks can be...