Mom Sent To Jail For Smoking Around Kids POSTED: 6:43 am EDT August 13, 2004 BOWLING GREEN, Va. -- A woman was sentenced Thursday to 10 days in jail for defying a court order not to smoke around her children. Tamara Silvius was banned last year from smoking around the youths, now ages 8 and 10, as part of a custody arrangement with her ex-husband.