[Im4Starr]

When your child gets emphysema at age 40, I'll listen.

You seem to imply that everyone who has ever been around smoke for an extended period of time will get all sorts of unpleasant conditions. But if that's the case: Why isn't an across the board truth?

I can give you chapter and verse on people I've known personally who smoked all their lives who have not even a trace of cancer or breathing problems...one guy died 2 yrs ago at the age of 90...smoked for 77 years..died of old age. Another woman I know just celebrated her 85th birthday, lived through the holocaust, survived 3 husbands and 2 kids, and has been smoking for 70 years. And her only malady, at the moment, is a bum hip.

And I'm still not clear on why if smoking causes cancer, some doctors are convinced that smoking pot is a cure. Seems ironic, no?

[Im4Starr]

And I can't forget all the rescue workers at ground zero, who, after cleaning up the debris from the towers day in and day out, requested (and received donations of) cartons of cigarettes.

[VRWC_minion]

You seem to imply that everyone who has ever been around smoke for an extended period of time will get all sorts of unpleasant conditions. But if that's the case: Why isn't an across the board truth?

Why play russian roulette with a childs life ? Would you think its appropriate for nurses in a hospital to smoke around new borns ? If not, whats the difference between that and a 9 month in a car seat ?