Can You Breathe?

Go ahead and keep smoking! I’m not condoling it at all, nor am I going to provide information that is encouraging~ especially for young children who inhale the second hand smoke.

Research has been proven that infants, toddlers and children who are exposed to second hand smoke develop numerous ear infections, pneumonia, and bronchitis that will eventually develop hearing loss as teenagers as well as brain damage. In addition you are causing your children to be at risk for cancer 100 times more than those who are not exposed to second hand smoke. (http://www.entnet.org/content/secondhand-smoke-and-children)

My son had severe asthma and allergies growing up and it did not matter who the person was; husband, Mother, Father, Uncle etc. they did NOT smoke in my house, car, or in the vicinity of my child or my house. As a parent, you have control over your smoking enough to wait until you get to a place where you are not affecting anyone with the second hand smoke~ Better yet, you can stop smoking yourself. It is selfish and costly to you and your child when you are constantly taking them to the doctor for ear infections, bronchitis, and pneumonia – and you are being ignorant of how it affects their lives!

I am excited that many states have developed a fine to anyone smoking in the car with children under the age of 18. Some states it’s under the age of 15, others are under 14, but I am not sure it is Indiana yet, but if it isn’t, it still should be something as a Mother you do not expose your child to~ even if you smoke.  

Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.  Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing. Philippians 2:3,4 TLB