Posted on 12/16/2005 10:57:51 AM PST by kingattax
Anti-smoking activists who are driving cigarettes from public places across the country are now targeting private homes -- especially those with children.
Their efforts so far have contributed to regulations in three states -- Maine, Oklahoma and Vermont -- forbidding foster parents from smoking around children. Parental smoking also has become a critical point in some child-custody cases, including ones in Virginia and Maryland.
In a highly publicized Virginia case, a judge barred Caroline County resident Tamara Silvius from smoking around her children as a condition for child visitation. Mrs. Silvius, a waitress at a truck stop in Doswell, Va., calls herself "highly disappointed" with the court's ruling.
"I'm an adult. Who is anybody to tell me I can't smoke or drink?" she said in an interview yesterday.
An appeals court upheld the ruling, but not before one judge raised questions about the extent to which a court should become involved in parental rights and whether certain behavior is harmful or simply not in a child's best interest. Mrs. Silvius says she complied with the decision by altering her smoking habits.
"My children know not to come around when I'm on the front porch with my morning coffee, tending to my cows or out in my garden, because I'm having a cigarette," she said. Still, she thinks this was not a matter for the courts because it was not proven that she posed a risk to her children's health.
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Sheesh!
Well good for you that you are doing something you believe in. I cannot object to that even though I think you are barking up the wrong tree.
My experience tells me that smoking is just plain bad for your health...as well as for others. As for the obese...2 wrongs don't make a right.
now only martinis
Shut up and go get drunk on your martinis.
She's hotter than that. :-D
There might be something to that. I have 2 schools within 1/4 mile of my house. I hardly ever see any kids playing outside. I think computers and TV's have turned them into catatonic droids.
There are a few whack jobs here who are proud of smoking while pregnant and putting their own child at risk. How sad is that?
"You will NOT find any smoking FReeper IN here that will ever say that smoking is good for us! Not ever!"
1.) I do not envy the knowledge of others.
2.) I would gladly attend your wake, the sooner the better.
Merry Christmas!
I'm burdened with way more knowledge of the female anatomy than any one man who isn't a OB-GYN should.
The placenta only HELPS filter poisons, it isn't 100% effective against all of them.
The body metabolizes alcohol like a food. Not only that, its absorbed into the bloodstream quicker than most other types of molecules.
Ma'am, Google Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Google. You might also look into the whole Thalidomyde issue in the 1970's. It'll tell you that what you think you know about the placenta might be out of date.
Platinum
I doubt you will be around when my wake arrives.
Have another puff on me!
I am through talking to you!
CYAAAAAAAAAA!
Quit??? Who, me???? hahahha I don't THINK so.
Why should I deprive my self of some I really enjoy.
Boy, these goody two shoes. Aren't the CUTE? LOL
See #267...says it all.
hahaha
Enjoy!
Go post on DU.
Until I was 19 years old my dad smoked around me. When I am anywhere near cigarette smoke I literally get sick. I will just get away from the smoke, because I don't want to seem like one of the overdramatic non-smokers who will start to wretch then second they see a smoker (I swear I knew a guy who only started his fake hacking when he saw someone with a cigarette. even though the person had been smoking for some time before this person saw them). On the same note, if the anti-smoking group in AZ pushes for a ban on public smoking I will be one of those voting against it.
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