Posted on 04/30/2006 8:31:10 AM PDT by SheLion
While a growing majority of Americans favor smoking restrictions in public places, many adults still expose their children to significant health risks by puffing tobacco at home, a Mississippi State University researcher reports.
In a scientific paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco, Robert McMillen, MD cites changes in adult attitudes and behaviors over the past six years regarding secondhand smoke.
McMillens report, Changes from 2000 to 2005 in U.S. Adult Attitudes and Practices Regarding Childrens Exposure to Secondhand Smoke, stems from his comprehensive 2000 National Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control.
The vast majority of adults in 200597 percent-- recognized the dangers of exposure to secondhand smoke from parental smoking , McMillen found. Yet, a tenth of households10 percentallow indoor smoking in the presence of children.
The 2000 survey was funded by MSUs Social Science Research Center, where McMillen is an associate research professor and leading authority on secondhand smoke; the Center for Child Health Research of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
A newly appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the AAPs Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence for Children in Chicago, McMillen said data in his latest report have a number of implications for clinical and community interventions.
While they demonstrate significant improvement in many indicators of adult attitudes and practices, homes serve as settings for intense secondhand smoke exposure, and many public settings that children frequent still are not smoke free, he determined.
A growing majority of adults in the U.S. favor restrictions on smoking in public settings, suggesting that many communities across the nation have the public support for much broader public smoking restriction policies, he concluded.
McMillen and his research team conducted six annual cross-sectional household telephone surveys in the summers of 2000-2005, while numerous state and national tobacco control programs were being implemented. The surveys included national probability samples of adults from all 50 states, and had a response rate of 75-87 percent.
Support for smoking bans increased from:
--71 to 80 percent in shopping malls;
--61 to 71 percent in restaurants;
--77 to 82 percent in fast-food restaurants;
--25 to 39 percent in outdoor parks; and
--78 to 82 percent in indoor sporting events.
Regarding household practices, support increased from 69 to 77 percent for smoke-free homes; and from 79 to 90 percent for smoking bans when children are present.
Community practices that included smoking bans increased from:
--75 to 83 percent in indoor shopping malls;
--68 to 80 percent in convenience stores;
--52 to 72 percent in fast-food restaurants;
--25 to 45 percent in restaurants; and
--8 to 15 percent in outdoor parks.
Mississippi States Social Science Research Center, headed by Art Cosby, conducts basic and applied research encompassing social and economic development, families and children, alcohol safety, substance abuse, and a range of other issues.
As long as you keep your windows up - don't want the driver in the car behind you to catch lung cancer from your second hand smoke now do you?
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Odd, we're not the ones using junk science and emotionalism.
I give it about 3-4 years before children who are overweight are taken from their parents arms by child protective services because their parents have been accused of abuse in allowing their children not to be healthy.
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It's OK for our health system to go broke paying for illegals but God help the soul who smokes. Secretly, I hope 90 percent of the illegals smoke and tell the do-gooders to go f*** themselves after the dogooders welcome them into the fold.
And where will they get their sin tax money if everyone quit smoking? You know they won't give up that money - everyone will have to pay a sin tax!!!!
This has been an amusing interlude, but it is time for me to get back outside. I'm hoping to finish marking out the field before hubby gets home from work, but my daughter ran into a glitch with planting her flowers (read that as 7 year old got bored planting) and now that we've finished lunch I promised I would help.
I find it rather amusing all the anti smokers think that smokers are sedentary bums with health problems and all have sickly children. Other than the 8,000 or so square feet of turf I had turned up for me on Saturday, we do all of our tilling and planting by hand. I wouldn't even have had that work done, except the weather and mechanical problems with the hand tiller had kept us from doing it, and it is strating to get to where if I don't start getting stuff in the ground soon, I'm not going to have half the crops I want in for timely harvest.
Farming, even on a very small scale is not easy work.........of course the antis will claim that no smoker is capable of doing such physical labor..........but as usual it will be just a claim with nothing to back it up, except for all of the same tired soundbites from their controllers. They really sould meet some of my large scale farmer friends and acquaintences, all smokers and many in their 70's.
Pathetic bunch they are.!!! (the antis, not the farmers)
The first time I were to receive such a "cautionary" letter - the school would be receiving a letter from my attorney.
I give it about 3-4 years before children who are overweight are taken from their parents arms by child protective services because their parents have been accused of abuse in allowing their children not to be healthy.
If they are already sending such letters home, it will be far less than 3-4 years, believe me.
The district I live in (in Virginia) has a "no nits" policy in regard to headlice. I know of 2 families, in just one school in the district, that were visited by child protective services last year because of excessive absences of their children from school because of the policy.
There have been no CPS visits so far this year for children attending that school...........I know this because my child is in the 2nd grade in that school and stay on top of the problem, because it is a problem in that particular school and 1 other elementary school in the district.
Not here on FR. The wackjobs here assert the earth is flat and then brag about how they put their own kids at risk. Even so far as to admitting they smoked while pregnant. (Hint: it's not a conservative value to gamble with the health of your fetus)
Did you know that on Oldies radio stations the song "Smoking In The Boys Room" is banned?
Oh my God,you're saying I'm a child abuser.
Five kids,all middle aged non-smoking adults,and I find out I was a bad mother.
Six grandchildren who do lots of sleepovers at Nana's,smokey house and all. Thank God my kids and kids-in-law have good,common sense.
Thanks for the ping,SheLion.
OH! Parish the THOUGHT! hehe!
Boy, that's ONE state department you DON'T want at your door!!!
I couldn't agree with you more. And the anti's "I" have seen are either obese, or putrid little nerds. They all look like they need a life!
Today is the best day we have had this season so far. Almost 70 out there! Beautiful!
Have fun with your garden!!!! :)
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