Should people who smoke around young babies be prosecuted?

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Through my work i was required to visit a house where the grand parents look after their grand child most days of the week. Both of them smoke heavily (20 + a day) and often have the babies great Aunt visiting as well who also smokes. The house is really just a fog of smoke...... i am a smoker myself although i never smoke in the house or car (never did even before having my ds)and am trying hard not to be a hypocrite..... but when they tell me that the baby also has asthma i am amazed that they can be so utterly ignorant!!!!
Surely this should be seen as neglect and should be advertised as such by health professionals???
Really am not trying to be pompus and stuff but i just wanted to have a go at then and bang thier heads together!!! Surely there should be a law prohibiting it.....

at university, i knew people who used to get their cat stoned. they'd pass Kitty around with the spliff or the bong and blow smoke around it.

they should have been shot.

If peoples attitude to caring for their children is based on defying what is proven to be in the childs best interest then what a sad world this is. Ok so prosecution is maybe to extreme but to ignore it completly because that is the easy option and for people use the 'nanny state' excuse to not do anything about it is a cowards way out........ in my erm obviously wrong opinion.

people are doing something about smoking though, it's not exactly encouraged now is it.

you say yourself you smoke.. yuo have children? so wjust becasue you don;t smoke in the house does not mean that the fact you smoke does not affect your child.. so why are you better than the other smokers, iyswim... you cacn smoke, but not in the same room. but if you do you should be prosecuted?>

No.
FGS.

well, if you are a smoker, it's not the same as smoking outside and away from your children than in an enclosed space, is it?

as i said i am trying not to be a hypocrite, yes i smoke outside away from my ds and yes he has asthma....... but he never breaths in my smoke or sees me smoking.
What my problem is that this is a form of abuse..... end of story.

you can still smell smoke on a smoker even after they come in after their fag.

futile arguement i guess.

but he is still exposed to the chemicals in your breath and on your clothes after you have had your cigarette.. so you might not be smoking 20 a day in the same room, but you are still exposing him to smoke

Thought you did not have to explain yourself to a stranger Expat .......... and there is a bit difference to smoking away from your child and smoking the equivelent of 40+ fags in a day in in an enclosed space.

seems odd to feel so strongyl about it when you are a smoker yourself. you surely know the health risks, yet you smoke, why are you any different to the family you discuss in your OP?
am an ex smoker, btw, so i know about the whole craving thing!

Well there you go, obviously i am an hypocrite......... ta ra

If you feel so strongly about it, why don't you say something to them?

ok, then, sorry for trying to understand more about why you feel so strongly

i;ll leave you to it

exactly, lulu.

i still crave, too.

won't be picking one of those up again, though.

my mother has COPD from smoking.

that is bad expat. good for you for not giving in, it is tough !!

EVERY time she gets a cold, or has a sinus attack, it goes straight to her chest and wrecks havoc.

it's not good and it's going to shorten her life.

sorry to hear that.

But fordfiesta what about your child picking up residue from your clothing?Unless you change your clothes before you pick your child up?
Am not being critical,am in the early stage of stopping as worry about my ds2's recurring ear infections and know that there are links with smoking and those.