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To: at bay
I'm sorry about the three kids with asthma but their parents' smoking didn't give it to them.

I was a severe asthmatic from age 5 until age 21,in a non-smoking home.I started smoking in my late teens and am still smoking 50 years later and no more asthma.

I raised 5 kids and my husband and I both smoked and none of our kids had asthma.

I'm certainly not saying smoking is good for asthmatics,although Teddy Roosevelt's fancy doctors thought it was.(in the book "Mornings on Horseback). I just feel that smoking is blamed for everything today,from low birth weight to delinquency.

If smoking causes asthma how did the many thousands of kids who live in non-smoking homes get it?
17 posted on 03/04/2004 4:49:45 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears
"If smoking causes asthma how did the many thousands of kids who live in non-smoking homes get it?"

Add to that the fact that the rate of children contracting asthma has risen while the rate of smoking has decreased. If correlation equals causation, I say that smoking decreases the childs chances of getting asthma!
35 posted on 03/05/2004 5:18:15 AM PST by CSM (Looking for a stay at home mom for my future offspring!)
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