so i'm driving to work this morning and traffic was stop and go on I-95. at one point when i was at a complete stop, i glanced over at the car next to me. what did i see? i saw a woman driver who was puffing away on a cigarette, the windows were all up, and there was a toddler in a booster seat in the back. the entire car was filled with smoke.
is this not child abuse????? how is it EVER ok to force a child to inhale second-hand smoke? the child has no choice. he/she is trapped. it is common knowledge these days that smoking causes cancer, and that second-hand smoke is just as dangerous if not more so. what are these adults thinking?! they say they love their kids, but yet they put their own unhealthy desires ahead of the health and safety of their children. research has shown that children of smokers are more prone to asthma and respiratory infections, and don't do as well in school as non-smokers' kids. why would you want to make your kids sick? it's a form of poisoning. if you smoke around your kids, you're poisoning them and should be prosecuted as such! i don't know how smokers justify this in their own minds. can anyone tell me? i'm very interested to hear an argument that would convince me that this is ok.
some states are now passing laws that make it illegal to smoke in a vehicle when a child is present. hooray for those states!
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