2007-03-01 05:27:24 · 22 answers · asked by ♥michele♥ 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
"You can't control......" ??? What?! You can't control anything people do in their homes at any time; however, some of those things are still illegal. If parents want to smoke - they can - but why should their kids have to also?
2007-03-01 05:40:45 · update #1
Unfortunately there are alot of ignorant folks out there...and a fair number here as well.
Second hand smoke KILLS people...it is just as harmful if not worse than any other abuse you can inflict on someone, because it isn't obvious...and precisely BECAUSE people don't think it's a big deal.
And I'm not some pansy a.s.s. neversmoker...I used to smoke a pack a day...I quit about 4 months before I got pregnant with my son ...I would NEVER smoke anywhere near my son.
Basically...people that think it's ok to smoke around children are the same people that just shouldn't breed in the first place.
It IS abuse/neglect.
It DOES kill people everyday.
2007-03-01 10:56:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it is a form of child abuse. Keep in mind that I have lost 5 family members to smoking related illnesses, including lung cancer, so I suppose I am a rabid anti-tobacco person. The thing is, it isn't really as hard to figure out some seem to think. The kids will smell like smoke after they leave their house. If you allow your kids to play in their house, that should be one of the questions you ask the other parent before you consent. Personally, I don't understand why tobacco hasn't been outlawed. There has been plenty of time for tobacco farmers to transition to other crops or even other livlihoods. But I guess big business rules again.
2007-03-01 06:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I understand what you mean. I also understand about the disputes over abortion and spanking and all the other comments in regards to raising children healthy & safe. But I will be honest with you, back in the day (50's, 60's & 70's) there was not all this confusion on how to raise your children and people minded some what of their own business and the government stayed out of child raising. Just like anything else common sense should and always play a part...yes there are those parents out there who have lost "common sense" but again it is their life, it is their home and their children to raise. Again I do understand the question at hand I agree that smoking in front of a child is not healthy.
2007-03-01 08:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by Ladybug 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes! They should be charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
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I'm amazed at how many people are pro-child abuse by smoking. These I assume are the same people that are "pro-life" because the unborn baby has a right to live. So do the rights disappear the moment they are born? When do they get those rights back, at 18?
Growing up, I was physically abused unmercifully. I have scars from head to toe. But that's exactly what they are, scars; wounds that have healed.
My aunts and their husbands smoked around their kids. My cousins have been through a lot more than myself and my siblings. Among 6 of them there have been 3 open heart surgeries because of a smoking related birth defect, one smoke related triple bypass, two cases of lung and throat cancer and one who just got his "3 months left to live" sentence, multiple hospitalizations, and every one of them has severe asthma.
6 kids, all in their 30s and 40s, all ill related to smoking. Those scars don't heal.
My parents had 9 kids who were beaten, we are all alive, we have all had a good cry over our abuse, not one case of cancer, heart failure, heart disease, or asthma. I wouldn't trade my past with any one of them; I prefer my scars. It's not at all the same.
P.S. I don't agree with beating kids either, abuse in any form is wrong! Smoking in front of your kids IS child abuse, if not equal to, worse than beating them.
2007-03-01 05:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anne 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes, no doubt, kids don't choose that kind of life and they especially don;t choose to "smoke" and that is what they are doing every time their parents smoke around them, everyone knows that smoking is not healthy yet they choose to do it, but they should be considerate enough to keep others away from it especially their loved once and with more reason their own children, it is definitely child abuse!!
2007-03-01 05:48:35 · answer #5 · answered by lisvad 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In a perfect world YES but as we all know we are not in a perfect world. I am VERY against smoking around children. It is a proven fact that second hand smoke kills and I think that smoking around your children constitutes murder. It's a shame that parents are so selfish they would put there children at risk for their own disgusting habit.
QUIT SMOKING AROUND CHILDREN!
2007-03-01 06:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by proud2btysmom 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it is so black and white as that
Yes it is wrong but I do not believe parents should be charged and go to prison for it. I mean how will you know half the time? Are you going to go door to door and check to see if they are doing it? Watch their every move? That is infringing on people basic rights and doesnt stand for the democracy that we live in. You cannot control what people are going to do. They will have to live with the consequences
In the end they will know what they did to their children
2007-03-01 05:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, the mother of two of my girls smokes around them all the time. The eldest has asthma and even though the doctor has told her mother time and time again to stop, she continues to anyway without regard to this child's health. We've been in the ER several times for this and nothing changes. Wish us luck in getting custody because this isn't the only form of abuse going on in that house.
2007-03-01 05:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by christibearb 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I agree with one comment "killing them softly". I also think they are killing their kids internally. There is a clear link between smoking and SIDS, respiratory problems like pnemonia, and asthma, and allergies. Smoking alone is very toxic for the environment.;i.e : it contains formeldyhede.
2007-03-02 13:59:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, i dont think that they should be reprimanded. We have rights and that is their choice. The government has already kept them from smoking in public places and restraunts that allows anyone under 18. When they smoke in their own home or wether or not they smoke around their children cant be controlled..
2007-03-01 05:34:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋