Giving Brangelina A Run For Their Money!
I assume that most smokers are intelligent enough to know by now that what they are doing to their bodies by ingesting that awful stuff is actually killing them and destroying their lungs. Fine, I can handle the fact that smoking is hard to quit and that it’s an addiction. What drives me crazy though is when these people smoke around their innocent children. The other day I saw a lady and her mother driving their car, both of them smoking away in the front seat while her tiny children were buckled in the back seat inhaling toxins, I just wanted to cry for those little ones that have no choice in the matter - the gift that they get from their mother is second hand smoke. Arrgh! I really wish there was a law that made it illegal for Anyone to smoke around a child. It’s illegal for children to buy cigarettes so why should it be legal for adults around them to poison their lungs, increase their chances of developing asthma, cancer or even just the example that they may potentially follow by being the child of a smoker. When I was in the hospital after having Noah and he was taken into ICU I was shocked to find out how many mothers of NICU babies where actually out in the parking lot puffing away and then directly going in and nursing their babies that were attached to breathing machines. Anyway, I’m sorry but I had to vent because it just makes me want to cry for those kids. PLEASE keep their lungs free from second hand smoke, please don’t smoke directly in front of the doors to a building and make all of us non-smokers walk through your toxins with our children just to get inside. I admire anyone who is strong enough to attempt to quit, I know it must be extremely difficult but I beg all of you to not subject little children to it. Thanks for letting me vent!
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Megan
April 29th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
Well said SISTA! I totally agree.
Meg
Marie Muzzo
April 29th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Now that I too am a non smoker I totally agree, and even if I still smoked I would agree with you too…Smoking is bad enough but the second hand smoke is even worse especially for little people. I can not wait until the all smoking in public places is banned. Well said Dee
Have a great weekend Merv
Aurelius
April 29th, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Darwinism.
Killing off their offspring to avoid passing their dumbness genes onto the rest of society. What self-less people.
SeniorGato
April 29th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
I would totally agree with you if my mom didn’t smoke in the same car. When you crack the window on the drivers side, no smoke even gets near the passenger. If they were blowing smoke in the childs face, I’d be upset, but it’s possible it was simply a misunderstanding.
Juliette
April 29th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Sorry SeniorGato but I’ve been a passenger in the same car as smokers and even if the window is “cracked” open the smoke will still permeate the car and go into the children’s lungs. You should read some articles on the effects of second hand smoke - no misunderstanding at all, smoking in the same car as your child (window cracked or not) is wrong. Thanks Daria for the vent, I totally agree.
Jules
Nanette
April 30th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
I totally agree, Daria. Smokers suck (and blow…) Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Mieke
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:56 pm
you know I was thinking about this today, I bet the mothers you saw smoking outside of the NICU didn’t breast feed their children. People who smoke around children, are so uneducated, they generally don’t nurse either.
Thao
May 4th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
Well said Daria. A friend of mine quite smoking when she was pregnant and nursing but once the child was off the breast milk, she started smoking again. I just don’t get it. The child is around the smoke now. Makes me sad when I go over there and see it happening. I have to say I hate it when they litter the butts too. They would fill their lungs with crap but not bother to use the ashtray because they are too lazy to clean it out.
Kerrie
May 5th, 2005 at 8:03 am
Well deserved vent Daria! It’s a pet peeve of mine too, I was one of those children who was held captive by two parents puffing away in the front seat and I remember it all too well.
All due respect SeniorG, my mother used to try to appease me by cracking the window and actually blowing the smoke OUT but the car still filled up with fumes, and we had a big old late ’70’s station wagon so I was well back… it was miserable.