Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
New Mom Hillary Duff Caught With Cigarette After Pub Visit
A photographer caught former tween starlet Hillary Duff smoking outside of Rock N Reilly's, a pub right in the heart of the Sunset Strip.Photo agency Pacific Coast News noted, "While the new mother of baby Luca has been seen all over Los Angeles working off her baby weight through Pilates and healthy eating, could she be trying to curb her appetite with smoking?" But we ask a bigger question: Since Duff has been outspoken about breastfeeding her baby, should she be smoking?
According to La Leche League International (the "Teat Nazis," as Tina Fey might call them), "If a mother smokes cigarettes, her baby can still enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding. But the more cigarettes a mother smokes, the greater the health risks for both her and her baby- whether he is breastfed or bottle-fed." Apparently, as long as the "mother smokes fewer than twenty cigarettes a day, the risks to her baby from the nicotine in her milk are small." So...puff away in moderation?
However, LLLI points to studies where maternal smoking has been "linked to early weaning, lowered milk production, and inhibition of the milk ejection ('let-down') reflex," and and where "40% of babies breastfed by smokers were rated as colicky (two to three hours of 'excessive' crying) as compared with 26% of babies breastfed by nonsmokers."
Funnily enough, recently Duff was asked about Time's breastfeeding mom cover and she said that while she supports mothers' rights to breastfeed anywhere (even LACMA), she said she would be discreet about it and probably wouldn't breastfeed in an "extremely public place... I have a different life where everyone's staring at me and where everyone's watching me and trying to take my picture... I'd probably be as discreet as I could."
Support for LAist comes from
As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m extremely proud of the work our top-notch journalists are doing here at LAist. We’re doing more hard-hitting watchdog journalism than ever before — powerful reporting on the economy, elections, climate and the homelessness crisis that is making a difference in your lives. At the same time, it’s never been more difficult to maintain a paywall-free, independent news source that informs, inspires, and engages everyone.
Simply put, we cannot do this essential work without your help. Federal funding for public media has been clawed back by Congress and that means LAist has lost $3.4 million in federal funding over the next two years. So we’re asking for your help. LAist has been there for you and we’re asking you to be here for us.
We rely on donations from readers like you to stay independent, which keeps our nonprofit newsroom strong and accountable to you.
No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, press freedom is at the core of keeping our nation free and fair. And as the landscape of free press changes, LAist will remain a voice you know and trust, but the amount of reader support we receive will help determine how strong of a newsroom we are going forward to cover the important news from our community.
Please take action today to support your trusted source for local news with a donation that makes sense for your budget.
Thank you for your generous support and believing in independent news.
Chip in now to fund your local journalism
(
LAist
)
Trending on LAist
-
With less to prove than LA, the city is becoming a center of impressive culinary creativity. -
Nearly 470 sections of guardrailing were stolen in the last fiscal year in L.A. and Ventura counties.
-
With California voters facing a decision on redistricting this November, Surf City is poised to join the brewing battle over Congressional voting districts.
-
The drug dealer, the last of five defendants to plead guilty to federal charges linked to the 'Friends' actor’s death, will face a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.
-
The weather’s been a little different lately, with humidity, isolated rain and wind gusts throughout much of Southern California. What’s causing the late-summer bout of gray?
-
Hexavalent chromium is the same carcinogen Erin Brockovich warned about in the 1990s, but researchers say more study is needed on the potential health effects of nanoparticles detected earlier this year. Experts will answer questions at a webinar this evening.
Best of LAist