Posted on 11/02/2001 9:58:26 AM PST by Max McGarrity
Then fast food and junk food.
How about all you busybodies stop trying to run my life and I'll make my own decisions about what is best for my children?
The EPA plans to force us all to go outside, and then CPS can confiscate our children if they get injured because abusive, selfish mommy is outside smoking. I won't be bullied. By you, or them.
Hope you don't feed your children any junk food 'cause you're next.
I go outside to smoke, because I already don't want my daughter to inhale the smoke. It also stinks up the carpet and furniture. So, I brave lightning, wind, rain, and snow to get my smokes, and I don't need some pompous pro-abort bureaucrat taking money out of my paycheck to tell me how to treat my child.
Screw you.
Ditto
I stopped smoking 6 years ago. But I will not take a smoke free pledge.
While watching me burn leaves the other day, the subject of second hand smoke came up. My son explained to me that it was 10 times more deadly than smoking. [His exact words] "No son, second hand smoke is not 10 times more deadly than smoking. Breathing in somone else's exhaled cigarette smoke is not good, however, when the schools are telling you something like that they are not being truthful. They are using it as a tool to get little Johnny try to make his Mommy and Daddy feel guilty for smoking. Why are you trying to kill me Mommy?"
My son's lesson that afternoon is never, ever trust anyone that ever so sweetly tries to influence your behavior by framing your parents' behavior as dangerous to you.
I send my children to school for an education (not all of us are cut out to home school our kids). However, I make it a point to stay on top of what goes on in class. I also refused to grant permission for him to take the CDC Safety test. Trust me, it isn't about first aid or "Cross at the ggeen and not in between." If anyone has kids scheduled to take the test, go to the CDC website. It will rock your world.
Culpeper, you've swallowed the anti rhetoric, hook, line and sinker. If your statement is true, then why oh why have asthma and other respiratory ailments SKYROCKETED during the same period of time that smoking has been cut in half? Why didn't environmental tobacco smoke affect my parents or me or my children during an era when up to 70% of men and 35% of women smoked and EVERYONE who smoked did so wherever they were? If children do have respiratory problems, then of course I wouldn't smoke where they could be affected, just in case--even if those problems were probably caused by something else. That's not what's going on here. "Pristine Christine" and the corrupt-from-the-top-down EPA are not allowing for facts--just "risk."
My pediatrician and I were talking about this a few months ago. He said that 30 years ago he used to see small children with asthma and allergies every once in a while, and now children with asthma and allergies seem to be the norm. Has the percentage of people who smoke increased dramatically in the past 30 years? Are people allowed to smoke in more places than they were 30 years ago? Are parents less educated about the risks of second hand smoke? To all of the above, the answer is NO.
If the government really wanted little kids to have less asthma and respiratory problems, they'd stop pushing free infant formula. The facts ARE out on that. This isn't about children. This is about control.
That's very unfortunate for you, I'm sorry.
However, whether you get sick from your smoking or not is undoubtedly genetic.
The oldest woman in Britain died the other day, aged 114 years. She gave up smoking 30 years ago (at about 84 years), just in case it damaged her health. Evidently, it didn't!
Everyone who lives, dies. Some go fast, some go slow. Whether you smoke, eat fatty food, live in a smogy city,etc. We will all die, sooner or later.
I'm offended that the Govt and other busy-bodies try to perpetuate the myth that non-smokers all live to a ripe old age and all pass quitely in their sleep. And, somehow, use this as a justification for engaging in compulsory lifestyle control.
If anything was ever a more perfect example of blatant fascism, state-sponsored control over the personal behaviours of its citizens would have to fit the bill perfectly. The fact that they've gotten away with it for so long is what amazes me.
My oldest son does happen to have asthma and I smoke outside. My younger son has been known to cause quite a bit if mischief when I was outside. I've often wondered what kind of hell I'd pay if he got seriously injured while I was outside.
I don't need the gov't telling me what to do. I do fine on my own.
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