Then it isn’t just their home, it is also their workplace.

I’m sick to death of these ignorant smokers using that argument Bob used. “Oh, you’re taking our rights away!” The difference is you *choose* to smoke, you don’t have to! Smoking affects others so you shouldn’t be able to go around smoking near people who don’t want it in their face.

Besides, smoking is a filthy habit, I don’t see the attraction to it at all. Get some backbone and give up, otherwise do it in your own private space.

Actually part of the legislation involves people not being allowed to smoke in their own homes if they work from home under certain conditions:

http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/faq/locations.html#home

Hope this helps.

Peter

Businesses aren’t allowed to stick chemical ridden fumes into public places, I don’t see how you can justify individuals doing it either.

The difference between talking and smoking is that no-one ever died of talking, and it’s not like the government has stopped you smoking in your or your friends houses, is it?

email: bob_motz@yahoo.com

Sorry to hear about your brother’s illness, it must be very difficult for him and your whole family. I understand because my mother-in law had COPD and suffered for many years before she lost her fight to lung disease in 2005.

A note to smokers who are still smoking in the presence of others before the ban:

Soon it will be against the law to harm others by exposing them to your second hand smoke, why not do the right thing now and CHOOSE to not harm others NOW by refraining from exposing them to from today.

MOST IMPORTANTLY-

For years you have argued that you should have the choice to smoke and that others have the choice to not be in the pub with you breathing your fumes. But…. infants do not have the ability to choose to protect themselves by getting up out of their prams and avoiding your smoke.

Not only does in utero and childhood secondhand smoke exposure cause decreased lung function and asthma in children, but such exposure is also responsible for poor lung function and respiratory disease in adults. Men who report postnatal secondhand smoke exposure and women who report prenatal exposure are more likely to have respiratory problems as adults.

The 2006 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report, “The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Secondhand Smoke,” has concluded that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke and that, on average, children are exposed to more secondhand smoke than adults.

Children are significantly affected by secondhand smoke. Children’s bodies are still developing, and exposure to the poisons in secondhand smoke puts them at risk of severe respiratory diseases and can hinder the growth of their lungs. Secondhand smoke is a known cause of low birth weight, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, middle ear infection, and other diseases. The health effects of secondhand smoke exposure from conception through childhood lasts a lifetime.

DEADLY STATS
If both parents smoke, baby’s SIDS risk is 3½ times greater than if neither parent smokes.
If mother smokes, but father doesn’t, baby’s risk is 2 times greater.
If father smokes, but mother doesn’t, baby’s risk is 1½ times greater.

Secondhand tobacco smoke exposure raises adolescents’ risk of metabolic syndrome - a disorder associated with excessive belly fat that increases one’s chances of heart disease, stroke, and type II diabetes.
Secondhand smoke exposure impairs a child’s ability to learn. It is neurotoxic even at extremely low levels. More than 21.9 million children are estimated to be at risk of reading deficits because of secondhand smoke. Higher levels of exposure to secondhand smoke are also associated with greater deficits in math and visuospatial reasoning.

If you reached down and broke your child’s arm, brutal though it may be, your child would most likely recover. The damage you do to your child when he or she breaths in your smoke is PERMANENT brain and lung damage.

Soon the law will change and smoking will be considered child abuse as it is in the US. Soon the first case where someone who’s baby died of SIDS will be tried for murder when high levels of nicotine are found post-mortem. Will it be you?

Do you need to wait for the law to change in order to control yourself from harming your child?
Why not make the choice, of your own free will to not harm your own child?

Read
McMartin, K.I.; Platt, M.S.; Hackman, R.; Klein, J.; Smialek, J.E.; Vigorito, R.; Koren, G., “Lung tissue concentrations of nicotine in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS),” Journal of Pediatrics 140(2): 205-209, February 2002.
Yolton, K. et al., “Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Cognitive Abilities of U.S. Children and Adolescents,” Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(1): 98-103.

Thank you,
-S