In the mid 1950s in the western world, close to half the adult males were active smokers which begs the inference that the other half, along with the children were passive smokers.
Today less than 25% of adults worldwide are active smokers and, according to this report, in the U.S. over 35% are passive smokers.
If we assume these numbers to be so and we lower the active smoker rate to 10% we will still have a passive rate of nearly 30%.
This research will never end until the active rate is zero if it is the passive group we wish to protect.
imho,
The unnecessary willful destruction, hindrance and/or degredation of life--especially of essentially defenseless children
is rarely to never justified.
--Personal selfishness of the controlling adult is not an adequate justification, to me.
--Personal arrogance of the controlling adult is not an adequate justification, to me.
--Personal rebellion of the controlling adult is not an adequate justification, to me.
--So called personal freedoms of the controlling adult are not an adequate justification to me. This same group of controlling adults pontificate ad naseum and loudly about how they are free to do anything as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else . . . they even tend to give lip service to the notion that person "A's" freedoms stop at person "B's" nose. EXCEPT when it comes to smoking.
Hypocrisy is such a brazen, glaring thing, sometimes.