[Gabz]

I'm terribly sorry to hear your son has asthma.

But the smoking of others did not cause it.

What bothers me is that you also know that, yet are sounding like you would prefer the government limit where smoking is permitted as opposed to a parent not taking his child somewhere that smoking is permitted.

""Unless you smoke outside away from everyone, you are causing future misery without any consideration of anyone else.""

That's a pretty declartive statement with nothing to back it up. Other than the fact you dislike tobacco smoke, why are you continuing to promote the lies of the anti-smokers? There is no proof that exposure to the tobacco smoke of others causes anything other than annoyance in anyone that does not have a pre-existing health problem.

[hotshot]

You admit that something you do on purpose annoys someone. Thank you for your honesty.

[hotshot]

The answer is as simple as the houses we grew up in. Insulation was unknown until the 50's. All of the houses built in the 60's and 70's have none or little until the energy crisis of the 70's. I have built solar houses so tight I had to install an air to air heat exchanger to get fresh air into the house. Now we wrap them in plastic with glass insu. and styrofoam to get R-20+. Both of my parents smoked all my life, I did not not notice. The second story didn't even have heat. We had our cloths under covers with us to get dressed in the winter mornings.

[Mears]

There is a book called "Mornings on Horseback" by David McCullough which is about the early years of Teddy Roosevelt.

T.R. was an asthmatic child from a very wealthy New York family and had the best doctors money could buy. His doctors had this child smoke cigars when he had an asthma attack---they also used black coffee.

I'm not for a moment endorsing any of this but T.R. lived an active life for many years after this treatment by some of the best known asthma specialists of that time.

Again,I'm just adding this to the discussion of asthma and smoking,not endorsing this type of treatment.