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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: greenspirit who wrote (15587)1/18/1998 1:10:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
What if the parents had a child who had a severe case of Asthma. So bad that when the parents do smoke the child is put in the hospital?

I keep saying this, but no one listens: some asthmatics smoke occasionally (or all the time, as in the case of Lawrence Eagleburger) because doing so stops attacks. I know someone who was asthmatic as a child and teenager. By the time he was sixteen or so he carried a pack of cigarettes with him and smoked when he felt he needed to, though he didn't enjoy it. (Doesn't have asthma anymore, and smoking never became a habit.)

This is not to say that asthmatics should be encouraged to smoke, or that it's good for them, but it can have a beneficial effect on their specific problem.
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