Forums → WEPR → Smoking around children =/= child abuse?
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researchers and the media do nothing but show life's risks but never the good things that come from them.
Tell that to the Marlboro Men.
These guys were all over the commercials in their day and era... glamorizing smoking. Do you want to know why they don't really do that anymore????? BECAUSE MOST OF THEM DIED OF LUNG CANCER!!!!!! ...and suffered from other respiratory (and maybe other systems) complications throughout their life. From the source, you'll see that one of them even did a 180 and advocated anti smoking legislation.
It's not child abuse because a lot of the idiotic parents don't even know it's bad for their kids, I mean if you are hurting your child without knowing, there isn't the abuse spirit right?
If you are the proper/legal age to be smoking in this day and era, you have to have lived under a rock your whole life for you not to know that smoking kills you and harms those around you. It is on the box.
What about the parents that beat their children into submission because they think that's the way to go? They're not really in the "spirit" of "abusing" their children because they don't think its abuse. They think it actually very constructive.
What about these tiger mothers that are so harsh on their children? To anyone looking in it would be psychological and/or physical abuse... but if they think they're just helping their child... then it isn't really abuse.
With your mindset, the only thing that is abuse is when an individual is like "Imma abuse me a little kid today"
If you're the kind of parent that is more concerned with your fix than you are about making sure what you're doing isn't going to hurt your child... then you probably don't need a kid.
For example, WWII The USA turned into the largest working machine and everybody smoked. second hand smoke can't kill you as fast as being depressed because everything fun in this world has risks.
hmmmmmmm......... yea... I'm really liking my ~11 more years on average than them (or 4,015 days) alive. It's either we're just growing super babies... or we know what to avoid in our environment now. I can't imagine which would be the greater contributor. If you wanna check it out then you can compare places on the earth with 1940s conditions to modern nowaday US conditions... You might just find that the more modernized nations are living longer...and that it isn't just evolution. ...unless you want to view being able to comprehend the concept of how your smoke has an AOE that isn't just limited to you as us being more intelligent. It is publicized in the media that second hand smoke is dangerous. If you don't know that it is dangerous to other people... then you probably don't even know it's going to give you COPD, Emphyzema, and/or cancer if you continue to do it.
Well if it only does that no one would be smoking it, right?
yea... it feels good. and all the while it's snowballing the ill effects on you till eventually the damage gets on the macroscopic scale and debilitates you more and more. If you don't know that cigarettes are bad for you and those around you, then you probably don't even know what cigarettes are. I grew up seeing multiple people with tracheotomies and electronic voice boxes... scared the hell out of me when they'd start talking. You start noticing old people hacking, coughing, (and them telling you never to smoke) and hacking up all kinds of crap as a kid. Upon query of what was wrong with those people, I always got, "they were probably a smoker."
Whenever someone lights a fire around a child and the smoke blows on them, they're probably going to tell the kid to move b/c the smoke is bad for them.
People think filters take all the crap out of what you're inhaling....... yea.... so why are you breathing out smoke again if it caught all the smoke? But it's more diluted right so its safer right? It's more like it is less of a hazard, but still a hazard.
Children also breathe more times a minute than adults. They can breathe anywhere from 30-60 times a minute depending on their age/size. yea... your slow breathing as an adult may not be putting as much crap down your wind pipe... but they're constantly cycling the new and old in and out. Real small children can't even move away if they're stuck in a crib (or can't walk/crawl).
You're also pre-disposing kids to the concept of sucking ash being ok. There are people that say that they'll never do it b/c of their parents... well either they're the outliers or someone did the research wrong b/c studies say they're more likely to smoke later in life because of their parents.