If any of you smoke around your kids, you should be jailed! I personally suffered more grief than I can tell you due to the fact that I lived with two chainsmokers (had no choice, I was a kid!) in a small apartment for 10 years. Second hand smoke hurts peoples' lungs more than you could imagine!
I was hacking and wheezing whenever I tried to play football or even do a 1 mile run in P.E. class. The physician who examined me was convinced I had asthma, and I was put on a steroid-based inhaler medication for years! (Strangely, it never helped - I wonder why?!?!?) This could have kept me out of the Army!
But lo and behold, as soon as I am moved out within a few months I am running 2 miles in under 13 minutes! Please don't destroy your kids' lungs. If you have to smoke, do it outside and don't make them the victims! This is still a source of tension between my mom and me... I have told her that when her grandkids arrive they will not be visiting her house if I can smell even a trace of tobacco there, and that more likely she'll just have to come to my place. I won't screw up my kids' health on the basis of any studies, that's for sure!
Good for you! I grew up with a smoker, and my husband and I both smoked for 35 years. I was given less than a year to live in 1998 because of lung cancer, and thanks to God and some excellent doctors and a special diet, there is no trace of it to date.
But even if you don't get cancer (and you may need to have a specific gene or something) you sure do damage to your lungs and those of people around you. The medical profession calls it Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and it can kill you just as surely as lung cancer.
Carolyn
If any of you smoke around your kids, you should be jailed! I personally suffered more grief than I can tell you due to the fact that I lived with two chainsmokers (had no choice, I was a kid!) in a small apartment for 10 years. Second hand smoke hurts peoples' lungs more than you could imagine!
I was hacking and wheezing whenever I tried to play football or even do a 1 mile run in P.E. class. The physician who examined me was convinced I had asthma, and I was put on a steroid-based inhaler medication for years! (Strangely, it never helped - I wonder why?!?!?) This could have kept me out of the Army!
But lo and behold, as soon as I am moved out within a few months I am running 2 miles in under 13 minutes! Please don't destroy your kids' lungs. If you have to smoke, do it outside and don't make them the victims! This is still a source of tension between my mom and me... I have told her that when her grandkids arrive they will not be visiting her house if I can smell even a trace of tobacco there, and that more likely she'll just have to come to my place. I won't screw up my kids' health on the basis of any studies, that's for sure!
If anyone of us smokes around our kids we should be JAILED? And your an AMERICAN SOLDIER? Who's rights are YOU fighting for!
Your getting a little nasty to me, so don't mind a little retaliation, ok?
My husband is a Viet Nam Vet. TWO Purple Hearts. Thank God he lived to bring them home. My husband was and IS a smoker. Our parents smoked as well as our grandparents before us.
We gave birth to a beautiful baby healthy 8lb 12 oz girl. She grew up, she smokes, and she recently gave birth to a strong, beautiful healthy baby boy! As parents, we never "blew smoke" in our baby's faces! But growing up in a smoking household has prevented her AND us and all people that we know that smokes with children, never to have contacted asthma.
You grew up in a "small apartment with two chain smokers." Why, as a kid, were you inside all the time? Most kids I know can't wait to get outside to play.
Guess what? I was a professional dancer. I started smoking at age 16 and started dancing when I was 8, and danced until I married at age 26. Smoking never ever slowed me down. (And surely not breathing my parent's Second Hand Smoke!) Not once. When a person eats right, exercises, smoking is not going to hinder you until you become an elder.
Your going to deprive your mom from seeing her grandbabies just because she smokes?! I think your mom is better off without you. I'm sure your mom would have the good grace not to smoke around your kids, but just because you can SMELL it in her HOUSE! Yes, she is better off without you, Soldier Boy!
Now you're REALLY talking about overcrowding the prisons.
Don't talk to me about going to jail for smoking around kids. It's easy to tell that you already have an ingrown bias.
When you make statements that have no basis in fact, you appear an idiot.