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Originally posted by False_Prophet
You shouldn't smoke around your kids, obviously, don't smoke while pregnant or around a pregnant woman, but to see smokers as unfit parents, I find that going a little too far, I smoke myself, but when there are kids near me I always make sure they don't inhale anything. So I often just move away from them while I smoke. Smokers can still be loving parents, and the kids can still grow up to be normal and healthy.
I think kids have a lot more trouble from parents who drink a lot. Too bad you can't always know if they do.
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
Originally posted by MysticPearl
I'm calling you out OP! Prove to all of us how healthy you are, and how much you exercise. Or are you a lazy, overweight #, who sits on his butt all day finding someone else to criticize?
I never said I was healthy. My lungs are shot between the second hand smoke I inhaled as a kid from my two pack a day parent, plus an older sister with a similar habit, and the 26 years of smoking I did myself. Although my sense of smell and taste have improved, I am still very susceptible to nasal, lung and brochial infections. I cannot remember a time before the age of ten when I did not have some type of respiratory infection, due to the damage being done to my lungs by the smoke filled environment I was in.
Originally posted by False_Prophet
reply to post by theRhenn
Well, then you shouldn't smoke inside the house, or only in one room your kids aren't allowed to enter. I smoke in my room all the time, my mom and my sister have asthma, it doesn't bother them, so I guess it wouldn't be bad for kids either.
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
First of all, let me admit that I am the child of smokers, and that I myself smoked for over 26 years, including the years when my daughter was growing up. I have since quit, and this has changed my perspective on the issue, as I no longer feel the need to defend my addiction.
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This is not even considering the financial impact that such an addiction has, and once your children have grown up, they then get the increased chance of having to take care of an ailing parent who has emphysema, heart problems or cancer. Considering the myriad of problems the nicotine addiction inflicts upon the children of those addicted to this legal drug, it most certainly SHOULD be considered grounds for finding such parents as unfit to raise children...
Oh gawd, I thought this thread dies months ago.