Well said Pete,

And imagine the horror of the children seeing that non-smoking coworkers weren't rioting to stop those evil smokers. Imagine them watching people with different outlooks on life getting along. We can't have that. We can't have the children believing in such nightmarish stuff as tolerance and compromise. They might actually start to practice it in their lives if they see it enough and that would be extremely detrimental to the anti's mission to raise a generation who whines and sues whenever they don't get their own way.

I believe overprotecting children is as harmful as underprotecting them. Let me first start off by saying that I have no children and thus no firsthand experience. I know in my heart though that the vast vast majority of parents love their children more than anything and genuinely want to do right by them.

However, the fact that there are even people out there who think smoking around a child constitutes child abuse, makes me wonder how far off the rails we've gone as a society. Now do I advocate sitting a child down in an enclosed area and blowing smoking in his/her face? Of course not. But I really don't see anything wrong with a smoking parent smoking in his/her own home with a child present in the same room. My grandfather did that with me in the next chair and I turned out fine, more than fine actually. I'm just afraid that one day there will be a law that a parent can not smoke in the house if a child is present.

That rule will have its own built-in punishment. What will happen is there will be fewer people applying to foster or adopt. A few will quit smoking, but many smokers will be so offended by the rule, they will find some other way to become parents, such as surrogacy, in vitro, etc. Others will feel so ashamed, they will give up the idea of parenting at all, convinced they really are evil and don't deserve to have a family.

The new rule will do nothing to encourage more non-smokers to adopt, so the net result will be fewer people who are willing to parent these children.

No. What will probably happen is that the government will hike tobacco taxes for the care of the orphans.

For example, I don't want to get off topic, but I've noticed in recent years that whenever a man and woman are in competition, the woman always seems to get the upper hand and men tend to get portrayed disproportionately as either dumb or greedy (a giant disclaimer, I know this doesn't apply to everything and I am generalizing; it's just an observation). I don't think it stems from the characters themselves; I think it stems from moviemaker's fear of being labeled anti-feminist. As a woman this offends me greatl

there was nothing beautiful about spiraling smoke. are u kidding me?