smoking

[lozzzz]

last week I saw a young girl reversing out of her drive,with three little children in her car,must have been junior school age..she had all the windows up and a fag hanging out of her mouth..surely this is totally irrisponsible,felt like banging on the window and telling her to stub it out,would anyone have done so, or is it none of my business?

[Peri]

I am totally against smoking also lozzzz and it would annoy me to see that too.  I have never smoked though so I cannot really comment, I just know I dont allow anyone to smoke around my kids.

[blueeyedlass]

i have to say the worst case of this i have ever seen was a girl with a newborn baby in a sling with a cigarette hanging out her mouth when the baby was only like inches away from her face.shocking behavour if you ask me theres absolutely no need for that and its totally irresponsible.

[Mike10451045]

Me and my partner smoked until she fell pregnant and we both gave up without patches or anything. we went for a scan at 38weeks and there were girls who had just given birth going outside in the night wear to have a fag. theres no excuse for it anyone who doesn't know the health risks are living on another planet. If a mother or father put there child in a smoke filled room they'd have them taken off them this is the same thing.

[OBonio]

Yes it's bad, but still none of your business. They're not your kids.

[kick3m0n]

I agree it's totally horrific to see such things.  I wouldn't have said anything tho, not your business really, and it wouldn't have made one jot of difference anyway.  If she cares so little for her children that she'd smoke around them, she's not going to care what a nosey stranger says, is she?? 

[smudge]

Totally agree with you lozzzz & others - people who do this are selfish, inconsiderate specimens!

[Otrere]

I agree, that is inconsiderate behaviour - you'd have thought with the recent government campaign advert where it shows the little children breathing out smoke would be enough to stop anyone doing that. They certainly make me shudder.

Admittedly both my partner and I smoke but we NEVER smoke in the house - always outside and we never smoke in the car when our daughter is in there and if she isn't we have all windows open and the sunroof open!! (Makes if hard to light a ciggie though - LOL).

We are planning on having a second child soon and I will definitely give up the fags this time (though luckily there were no problems with our first daughter) because I am so ashamed that I smoked first time. I still beat myself up about it but moreso now because I know what "a mother's love" is.

At the end of the day its our choice to smoke and the children don't have that choice if we're breathing it in their faces. I want my child(ren) to have a long and happy life and would never inflict that on them. The thought of my own health and wanting to be around for my kids as long as I can is what is driving me to get the motivation to stop. (Wow, I've nearly talked myself into it!!)

Anyway, you'd have thought *that* mother would have thought like that and I can't understand any parent that cares more about their nicotine and doesn't care enough to think of their kids' health/future. I do what I can now to protect my child from it.

Anyway, now I've gone off on one I'll depart.

[frugalmummy]

None of your business. I don't agree with smoking either, nor cursing & screaming at kids or buying them everything in sight & letting them run wild.

But doing what you suggested would be like a police state. Just because we don't approve doesn't give us the right to do that.                             

The other comments that say ' we smoke outside, etc' are kidding themselves - you can't claim to love your kids then keep doing something you know will adversely affect your health, so to them, good luck in giving up.