cherydactyl

I whole heartedly agree with your e-mail and I think you wrote it well. There will always be those who disagree and sadly, in this case, they are usually addicts who's addiction is overpowering their common sense. My own mother is one of them. We had a blowup at Christmas because she was smoking in the house around Katie. She PROMISED me back when I was pregnant, that she would not smoke around my children. But when I mentioned it to her, well...that just ended up being bad. I had to threaten to leave and take Katie with me to get her to calm down and listen to reason. She knows what second hand smoke can do. She admits that my brother's asthma was probably due to her smoking all his life. But when she's got that stick in her mouth, talking to her isn't all that possible.

I do hope you don't get flamed, but if you do...just remember that it's often the addict and not the person speaking.