The harm of second hand may be more than people suspect.
If her parents smoked, she could have been exposed to second home smoke in the home...
The point being we should protect children from second hand smoke - by at least making people aware of the health dangers (I have read of studies that second hand smoke may cause harm).
If exposure to smoke as a child might have been a factor in her death, then people want to be aware of this fact.
My parents stopped smoking when I was a small child because they did want to harm us - and they did want to set a bad example. This was back in the 1950s before there were any health warnings on TV (in fact TV was quite young at that time).
I didn't know anything about her but I agree with you on the second hand smoke thing - especially around children. I have the most beautiful five year old grandson who had been a two pound preemy. I try not to preach but if there were one thing I could do I'd have my daughter-in-law stop smoking. She believes that smoking in the basement family room when my grandson is in another part of the house is okay.
It's nine years for me without a relapse. Probably the single most important thing a person can do. But, it's legal and people have the right to kill themselves with their vice of choice.
I wonder what the lung cancer rate is for people living in NY or LA and breathing that smog every day.
I wonder if it is higher than other areas of the country.
I'm glad you brought this up about parents smoking around their kids. I'm sure there arre millions of kids, like myself who were raised by parents who smoked all the time. We also went to school where the teachers smoked in the building. How come then is childhood lung cancer virtually unheard of? We should have been dropping like flies. This alone convinces me that SHS is a BS excuse.