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I ran into a coworker that had her baby 3 months before I had mine. She is a smoker and back when she first became pregnant still smoked but then told everyone she had quit. Today I was talking to her about how her baby was doing and telling her about mine when she told me that she had smoked thru her whole pregnancy! I was so angry I wanted to smack her. Its one thing if you want to smoke and cause yourself harm but she had another human being depending on her. I thought of all the woman out there who would die to be pregnant and have a baby. Women who are out there doing everything they can to be healthy so that they can get pregnant and have a healthy child. How can you do something that has been proven to cause harm to both yourself and your unborn child? It took me 9 years to finally get pregnant and I think the worst thing I did was eat Johns Hopkins food. I was almost glad when she told me how horrible her delivery was and that she will never have another baby. I just hope she either sticks to her word or stops smoking.
But smoking harms everyone around you all the time, not just when you’re pregnant! When you’re pregnant is the worst as far as “condensing” the effect, but if your parents smoke around you all the time when you grow up, it’s just as bad.
The gov. is wanted to pass a law here that would make smoking in a car with a child in it illegal – because in cars, second-hand smoke is very concentrated.
You should smack her for smoking, period…
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmThey are trying to ban smoking in a car with a child here too. I really wish they would but all the smokers are saying they have a right to do it. They finally passed an indoor smoking ban here. Now I can finally do out and not have to worry about getting smoke blown in my direction.
I heard they are now going to ban smokint in parks too!! I can’t stand smoke!! Well from cigeratettes. I LOVE smoke from the fireplace
The thing that really gets me is that someone might seriously think they have a right to inflict disease and slow death on the people who live with them! 👿 That’s not a right, it’s freakin’ criminal negligence. Being stupid is a choice, not a right, and if a person’s determined to be stupid then they should at least only inflict it on theirself. Good grief.
I wish smokers had to live in a fishbowl that contained their smoke so they could “enjoy” it without it poisoning other people. Then they could talk about exercising their rights.
I can’t stand smoking 👿 My mom used to smoke and she quit cold turkey the day she found out she was having me, I’m 25 now and she never started again thankfully. My grandmother lived with us when I was young and I was always sick and coughing, when my grandmother finally quit (due to getting emphazema(sp)) I also quit coughing. Then I had to watch my dearest friend suffer through lung cancer…I with the horrid things were banned!
My husband grew up with parents that were both chain smokers. They did eventually quit but not until after we had been married several years. Everytime we went to visit with our kids they came home coughing and congested.
Now thirty years later my husband finds out he has calcified lymph nodes due to the second hand smoke he breathed in for years!!
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I hate smoking as well. I also despise the “It’s my life, and my choice,” attitude. My grandparents all smoked, and guess what? By the time I was born, 3/4 were dead mostly because of it. My last grandmother only lived until I was three before she died of lung cancer. I would have loved to know them and had them as part of my life growing up, especially when I hear stories about others’ grandparents. 🙁 But no, they had to smoke. I wonder if they would have given it up if they had known by doing so they could have spent more time with their granddaughter in the future? 🙁 Only one was ever apart of my life, but I feel the hole they all left behind.
My mother smoked in my face and in the car my entire childhood, and I am still angry and bitter about it!! 👿 👿 She still smokes, but has finally learned not to smoke in the house.
I don’t believe there are any words strong enough to express my loathing of cigarette smoke!! 👿
That mother should be strung up like a piñata and beaten! Poor innocent child never asked for that torture!!! Jumps off soap box and stomps off…
Fact is, smoking is peoples choice, so lets try not to be too down on them. Yes, it is a nasty habit but so long as they are only hurting themselves, lets leave them to it. My husband smokes and I do not consider him stupid. As for smoking around kids, that is horrible. Grown ups are supposed to PROTECT children, not help them into an early grave. Jerks. It makes me wonder if they are oblivious to the harm or if they just dont care. 👿 I agree with smoking areas and no smoking in buildings where people eat, work , etc… but there are considerate smokers out there who only harm themselves. We all know its dumb. We can only hope the ones we love can quit before its too late.
When my friend got pregnant, both times, she was told not to quit, it is harder on the fetus and can cause miscarriages. She was told to slowly cut back, but if she noticed her body having withdrawals to have a smoke. By the end she was down to 3 a week. That said she NEVER smokes in her house or vehicle, or anywhere around her children. At -40 she will go stand on her front step and smoke while the kids are in the house.
They have just recently passed a law that you can not smoke in any public places here, and must be 10 meters from the doorway.
I also grew up with 2 smoking parents, who quit well after all of us had moved out, I hated it. I remember being asked in grade 6 if I smoked because I stunk like it 👿 I am glad that they finally quit, but wonder if it would have killed them to roll down the fraking window????
Quote:Fact is, smoking is peoples choice, so lets try not to be too down on them. Yes, it is a nasty habit but so long as they are only hurting themselves, lets leave them to it. My husband smokes and I do not consider him stupid. As for smoking around kids, that is horrible. Grown ups are supposed to PROTECT children, not help them into an early grave. Jerks. It makes me wonder if they are oblivious to the harm or if they just dont care. I agree with smoking areas and no smoking in buildings where people eat, work , etc… but there are considerate smokers out there who only harm themselves. We all know its dumb. We can only hope the ones we love can quit before its too late.
My hubby smokes too (he picked up the nasty little habit in the army in 1970), but he takes great pains to not smoke around anyone. He knows how I feel about it, and he is very considerate towards the kids and me.
My beef is with the inconsiderate clods who feel it is their right to smoke in places where other people are trying to breathe! I am very sensitive to the stuff (my throat gets sore, my eyes water and I cough incessantly), and no one seems to understand the discomfort I face!
I can’t tell you how many times I have been out in public and the smoke just seems to follow me wherever I go. Standing in line at horse events, at concerts, restaurants, wherever; I can’t escape!! 😯 I wish they had to sit and smell decomposing bodies or raw sewage until they understand what it is like for some of us!!!
My mother still doesn’t understand why I hate it so much. She would crack her window in the car (with me in the back seat) and tell me to shut up because there was no way I could smell it since it was going out the window! Our hubbies may not be stupid, but that sure was; dagnabbit!! 👿
Pant, pant, pant! Okay I am done for now. Thanks for letting me rant; it has been a terrible week for me.
Barrdwing wrote:The thing that really gets me is that someone might seriously think they have a right to inflict disease and slow death on the people who live with them! 👿 That’s not a right, it’s freakin’ criminal negligence. Being stupid is a choice, not a right, and if a person’s determined to be stupid then they should at least only inflict it on theirself. Good grief.
I wish smokers had to live in a fishbowl that contained their smoke so they could “enjoy” it without it poisoning other people. Then they could talk about exercising their rights.
Yeah, one of my best friends smokes like a chimney, but she respects my space and doesn’t smoke at my house and tends to reduce her number of cigs when I am visiting so she doesn’t choke me out.
You can’t even really talk to her about it, she gets obviously annoyed whenever I hint about her quitting, or say anything about how it might affect the health of her grandkids, who live with her. So I back off, but she’s of the “I have a right to smoke” crowd. However, she also recognizes to a point that, people who don’t live with her, have the right to not have it around them.
Anyway, it’s a sore subject.
Kyrin
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