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To: Grainne who wrote (15729)	1/19/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 108807

Quitting smoking is one of the best ways to prevent a fire in your home. Each year, hundreds of children are killed or injured in burning homes. Cigarettes, and the matches and lighters used to light them, are major causes of house fires. Quitting smoking prevents injuries. Babies move around unpredictably and could be burned by cigarettes in an instant. And with a cigarette in your hand, you may not be able to scoop your child out of danger. Preposterous. This sort of stuff is what injures the credibility of the anti-smoking forces. Sure, I'm willing to believe that smoking during pregnancy may result in lower birth weight, but any normal person, seeing her child in danger, would simply drop the ciggy. I mean really. But nicotine addiction is more likely to make you tense. This strains your relationship with your child and makes it harder for you to build a secure emotional base for your family. Utter nonsense. When I was growing up some of my friends' parents smoked and some didn't. It certainly made no difference to the "emotional base" of the family. Parents of infants need support from other adults, who will be more comfortable in a smoke-free house. Not if they smoke, too. They will, in fact, avoid you. This isn't science, it's propaganda.

To: Grainne who wrote (15729)	1/19/1998 3:39:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, I feel compelled to respond to this, strictly because you have again chosen to attribute to me a viewpoint that is not mine. Please re-read what I posted, and I think you will see that I am saying that placing children in foster care is NOT preferable to allowing them to remain in their own homes with their own parents, albeit in a smoking home environment. In fact, I can think of only a very few types of situations in which children should be taken from their homes and parents, and a smoking household in and of itself is NOT included. I beg of you not to again beg the question. Holly