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How immoral is smoking around children?

RJS 2012/06/25 22:05:23
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I see it all the time: people holding a child while smoking, walking with a child while smoking, smoking with their kid in the car. It gives me flashbacks to when I was a kid and my mom or grandpa would smoke around me, and I just feel so bad for those kids. It was difficult to breathe. Their hot ashes would fall off and flutter onto my skin, leaving tiny burns. Do smokers acutally think that cracking a window means all the smoke is going out that window?

Not shockingly, my asthma all but went away within a couple years of moving out of my parents' house. There's really no scientific question anymore as to whether or not smoking around children is hazardous for them.

So the question here is: just how immoral is it to force children to breathe second-hand smoke?
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  • poet4justice 2012/06/26 03:29:57
    Other (please comment).
    poet4justice
    this issue is not a morality one... but safety one
  • ~Adrien~ 2012/06/26 01:31:34
    It's pretty wrong, but not bad enough to be illegal.
    ~Adrien~
    People who have children should definitely not smoke in the house/car with windows closed/poor ventilation. It's sad that the irresponsible people of the world would have to set the bar for what laws should have to be passed regarding child neglect, but it happens. Applications have to be filled out for housing, driver's licenses, welfare, etc. but ANYONE can have children. . .
  • Lydecho Rain (Лидия) 2012/06/25 23:13:22
    Very, very wrong - it's child abuse and should be illegal.
    Lydecho Rain (Лидия)
    +1
    So bad for the child's health and the smoker's too.
  • Boris Badinov 2012/06/25 22:56:50
    It's not that big a deal.
    Boris Badinov
    Common sense is cool though...
  • Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/06/25 22:24:26
    Other (please comment).
    Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
    +1
    It is not immoral by any definition and tobacco is legal in this country. Should they, probably not unless there is proper ventilation.
  • Sister Jean 2012/06/25 22:09:34
    Very, very wrong - it's child abuse and should be illegal.
    Sister Jean
    very

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