Maternal Smoking and the Timing of WIC Enrollment: A Response to Davis, Lazariu and Sekhobo

摘要

To the Editor,We want to thank Christopher Davis, Victoria Lazariu and Jackson Sekhobo for their detailed comments on our paper, "Maternal Smoking and the Timing of WIC Enrollment." We provide a point-by-point response to their key comments below. However, before responding in detail, we would like to explain why we choose to examine an association between the timing of WIC enrollment and smoking. Our rationale goes to the heart of a larger exchange, which we would like to encourage among readers of this journal: whether a supplemental nutrition program that provides relatively modest calorie, protein and micronutrient supplements to pregnant women is likely to have a meaningful effect on birth outcomes in a developed country like the US,