> at my last job, i worked with a woman whose little baby had cancer. the baby died a few months ago, and, as you can imagine, it was quite hard on her.
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> however, today, while she was at the store, i see her lighting one cigarette after another. (keep in mind i didn't know she smoked)
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> now, i'm quite sure she didn't smoke while she was pregnant, but perhaps she was around people who did.
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> and yet, people can't understand why children are born with problems like this.or why they develop them as they get a bit older.
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> not to say i'm completely dissing people who smoke, because i have a lot of friends that do. but for some reason, this incident just totally pissed me off.
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> and that's really all i can say right now.

I'd like to see some statistics about kids with respiratory problems and parents who smoke. I think there would be a strong connection. I cringe when I see children in a car filled with tobacco smoke. It used to happen to me when I was little. I want to yell, "Hey, stupid! Are you trying to kill those kids?" But of course, I don't. When I see a young person smoking, I want to run up and slap it out of their mouth and yell, "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" But I don't do that either. I guess my character is flawed.
Howard