Mostly, I'd agree, except when it comes to defenseless children in a smoker's home.
"Mostly, I'd agree, except when it comes to defenseless children in a smoker's home."
My goodness,you never fail to impress me!
Inadequate? Hardly.
Your keen in-sight has won me over from the darkside!!!!!!!!!
Thanks be to you!!!!!!!!!
"Mostly, I'd agree, except when it comes to defenseless children in a smoker's home." ~ As said by Quix
You know, I was going to just let this go, but I have to say my piece and then I WILL just let it go.
What, exactly, have you done in your life, to protect "defenseless children" in or outside of a smoker's home?
Have you adopted a child? I have.
Have you raised any of your siblings children while they were in prison on drug charges? I have. (My two nephews.)
Have you saved a child from drowning? I have.
Have you taught kids CPR and First Aid? I have.
Have you taught Sunday School? I have.
Have you been a Den Mother (or Scout Leader?) I have.
Have you worked a Rape Crisis Line and had a child of TEN call you? I have.
Have you received a hug from an Iraqi child after you gave them a stick of gum? A LUXURY in their upside-down world? I have. (Operation Desert Storm vet, '91-'93.)
Have you worked in and contributed to Food Pantries in your community to feed hungry kids? I have.
Have you collected 'Toys for Tots' with the Marines? I have.
Have you made blankets and quilts for "The Linus Project?" I have.
Have you arranged counselling sessions for local kids to get together and chat whose parents have been shipped overseas for Operation Desert Storm and now Operation Iraqi Freedom? I have.
Have you rocked 'crack babies' at your local hospital? I have.
Have you worked in a clinic talking young women OUT of abortion and steering them toward adoption instead? I have.
Smokers are sooooo easy to pick on, especially on an open forum where no one really knows you. They're the current "pariahs" and unjustly so. My SIL, the drug addict, thief, drunk driver, mental case and general drain on society, who left her children for DH & I to raise doesn't smoke. *GASP* I guess in your opinion, she'd be a Saint because she "never smoked" around the boys, LOL! They're messed up to this day because they didn't have their bio-Mom and will more than likely have a hard time dealing with women as young adults as their mother (justly) rots in prison.
If all you do to "help defenseless children" is pick on and look down your nose at smokers, based on a bogus study, then you're full of it.
Children have much more desperate and pressing problems in this world than whether their Mom or Dad "lights up" around them. *Rolleyes*
Just putting things in perspective for us all. :)
*Steps Off Soapbox*
I smoke and my children ceased being defenseless shortly after they became mobile.
Within a generation, they will be among your rulers, and they agree with me.
Make your peace.