Baby smells of smoke

[hercules]

DH's cousin has just visited us from abroad and unbeknown to me dh let him smoke in the garden. We dont normally have this problem as his relations here know i dont like fag ends in the garden. His cousin then held my 6 month dd just for a few moments and when he left I noticed she stinks of fags. Gross! I am not antismoking, used to do it myself but why cant he keep his smelly breath and hands to himself. He has two kids, one not much older than dd- they must smell most of the time because whatever he smokes is strong.

Rant over.

Plus they were worried about their dd who is a year old as she has a nasty cough that wont go away, so much so they didnt want her to have any cheese in case it made it worse.
Duuhhhh, try not smoking next to it ffs.

Ok, rant over now.

When we went to visit my grandparents, my step-grandmother used to smoke in the car, and when I started to cough and my parents rolled the window down she would tell them they were clearly making me ill by exposing me to too much cold air! My mother was always tempted to leave the windows up until I got carsick, but she couldn't figure out how to do it without making us more unhappy than her stepmother.

Vile vile vile.

I used to know people who had a small daughter with asthma - he worked in the car industry and they both smoked like chimneys. Ahem, could you make the connection per-LEASE?

(PS H, sent you email, don't worry if you're not on for talking, honestly, xx)

Thanks mi- havent got it yet but guess thats cos no tech at the mo.

I met a local childminder, who seemed to have many shortcomings, but mentioned she had minded a friend's child. I phoned friend up who said, "K. was great! The only problem I had with her, and she knows that, is that my son [7 months old] used to come home smelling of smoke."
Blech... that was the final nail in the coffin of the idea of every using that childminder.

Childminders are legislatively prevented from smoking in front of children (ie not just "not in the same room' but anywhere they can be seen)
That is really serious and could get her into loads of trouble

I thought that might be the case... but Could it be that someone else in her household was smoking around the child, or someone she regularly chatted to when doing school pickups? Would that be enuf to make the poor baby smell?