[American Soldier]

You can easily verify this. Go to your kids' field day sometime. Those whose parents smoke will be in back during the footraces.

It's ridiculous that smokers in particular would be jumping on this bandwagon. Everyone I know in the Army who smokes freely admits that it adds time to their 2-mile runs and causes them to huff and puff when trying to go up large hills.

It's time for people to stop using personal liberty as an excuse for attacking the health of their children. It's a reflection of the self-centered age we live in and this is the kind of "my pleasure at the expense of all others" thinking that will drive this country directly down the toilet.

[per loin]

Nonsense. My wife and I were both heavy smokers, and all our kids were excellent athletes. Your attempts to extrapolate from your own physical shortcomings to the rest of the world exemplifies that very "self-centeredness" that you decry. Sure, smoking cuts down on the wind of smokers, but that's their decision to make, not yours, and most certainly not the government's.