Why do people smoke around their own children?

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paul34

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I don't understand. I won't get into the whole "you should stop smoking" thing because I believe that for the most part, if you want to hurt yourself, that's your right as an individual.



But second hand smoke is quite harmful, especially when it involves other people who don't have the ability to defend themselves or just "leave."



I do valet so I see plenty of cars that reek of cigarette smoke and have countless cigarette butts lying around, ash everywhere, etc. Or just the smell.



At any rate, I also see many of these people get back in their car, with their young child (anywhere from a few months to probably 15+), light up, and drive away puffing. With their kid there.



It just... makes me sick. How could you do that to your own child, or any child for that matter? Would you feed your children poison everynight while constantly punching them whenever they were around you? Well then why would you constantly introduce toxic substances into their body against their will?



If you smoke, that's your choice. I'm not debating that. However, I would assume you would at least do it somewhere where it doesn't affect other people - or at the very least, your own people.



You're supposed to be taking care of your kids, right? That's how I thought it worked. Maybe I missed a memo changing things :nixweiss
 
I think it is all personal mentality.



I smoke, and I smoke in my car but I would never smoke around a child.



I don't have any yet, one on the way though, and I do not smoke around my wife anymore. I also have a 2 year old niece and I never smoke around her, my wife and I keep her overnight and weekends sometimes and I won't even smoke in the car without her in it until all of her things (seat, toys, ect) are out of my car.



Like I said its personal mentality. I can't count the times I see an adult with a child in the back seat just puffing away. Not sure how it is in other parts of the country but here there is a law against smoking in a car with a child in it.
 
Ignorance. I try not to pay attention to other people when Im in public.. Makes me mad to see all the stupid stuff people do.
 
01TrublUGT said:
Thanks, just found out last week that its a boy. Anyone know how to buff out a hotwheels to a nice shine lol..
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My son is 8 and right now he is more interested in putting firecrackers in his hotwheels and blowing them up than he is in polishing them :) He is starting to show some interesting in working on the car with me though, I was starting to lose hope.



Both my son and daughter are very familiar with the 2 bucket method of washing the 'Stang :) Being kids they tend to miss spots so I have one start on the hood and have the other follow behind from panel to panel so what one misses the other usually catches :)



Congrats :2thumbs: :woot:
 
01TrublUGT said:
Thanks, just found out last week that its a boy. Anyone know how to buff out a hotwheels to a nice shine lol..
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:LOLOL I am a recent DAD myself to a baby girl. Don't worry I am polishing my gun instead for when I may need it in 16 years. :LOLOL
 
rjstaaf said:
Both my son and daughter are very familiar with the 2 bucket method of washing the 'Stang :) Being kids they tend to miss spots so I have one start on the hood and have the other follow behind from panel to panel so what one misses the other usually catches :)
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Scratches in the name of education and love. :laugh: I can't wait!!!



I will have a bottle of Menz SIP on standby.
 
I'll never forget when the cleaning woman who cleans my office came in with her baby, she was giving it soda to drink. When I simply commented why she is giving a BABY soda, she said (and I sh!t you negative): "That's ok, it's diet."
 
Addictiveness and the inability for self-control...

My mother smoked all my life including around myself and my order brother. I'm not sure about when she was pregnant with us but with my little sister she did as well.

She has attempted to quit a few times.

Although I made the mistake of smoking at about 8 I used my experience to influence my own self control. So I don't smoke around my kids and I have also recently quit smoking all together.

DETAILING IS MY NEW ADDICTION NOW !!!
 
howareb said:
Scratches in the name of education and love. :laugh: I can't wait!!!



I will have a bottle of Menz SIP on standby.
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No no no no, I typically wash the lower panels, wheel wells, wheels/tires and other areas they can't reach beforehand. They know that the sky will fall if they drop their wash mitts. They both are pretty good at it, of course I let them practice on their mom's car (Taurus Wagon) for ages until they were ready for dad's Mustang ;)
 
I have to say that both my parents smoked around me and my brothers when we were young. It was long enough ago (I am 44) though that I don't think the term second hand smoke had even been coined yet.



Some will probably think it is barbaric but my mom lined the three of us up when we were all less than 10 and made each of us take a puff from a cigarette after she caught my two younger brothers trying to light a cigarette they made out of a piece of paper and some grass from the yard :D I don't know if that was the only reason but my brothers and I haven't smoked since...
 
Mr. Vic said:
Addictiveness and the inability for self-control...

My mother smoked all my life including around myself and my order brother. I'm not sure about when she was pregnant with us but with my little sister she did as well.

She has attempted to quit a few times.

Although I made the mistake of smoking at about 8 I used my experience to influence my own self control. So I don't smoke around my kids and I have also recently quit smoking all together.

DETAILING IS MY NEW ADDICTION NOW !!!
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I am proud of you. I love it when someone kicks that habit.



But watch out a detailing addiction can get a whole lot more expensive than cigarettes. I should know I am addicted to detailing also. Autopia-Carcare, Sonus and Autogeek are killing me with their sales.
 
Yeah excessive detailing could be hazardous to your bank account.



I promised the wife I would quite smoking before the baby gets here, guess its time to go check out the patch.



rjstaaf - Maybe if you upgrade the PW he might drive it more than trying to blow it up lol. With a few upgrades I have seen them get up to 15mph. Already in the design phase for mine, Mustang PW painted Azure Blue to match my Mach, right now I am working on fabbing a shaker scoop for it.
 
smprince1 said:
...For the same reason most smokers thinks it's perfectly OK to throw their lit cigarette butts out the window of the their car on the ground.
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And onto your bloody car!! Bastards.
 
I think the risks of smoking around children are pretty overblown - two whole generations grew up with it (both of my parents lived in smoking households), and most everyone grew up fine.



The difference between the results of the actual studies (if you live in a confined space with someone who chain-smokes with poor ventilation, there are some health risks) and the way it's marketed by political action groups (if a child smells a cigarette from half a mile away on a windy day, he's going to die of cancer) are night and day.



That said, I try to keep my cigar habit to smoking-only venues, more out of politeness than any real health hazard. Secondhand smoke is a hugely overblown danger, but the matter remains that some people just don't like the smell of smoke, and that's their right.
 
themightytimmah said:
two whole generations grew up with it (both of my parents lived in smoking households), and most everyone grew up fine.
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Even though I don't do it you did hit the nail on the head with that one.



Most of it is people blowing things wayyyyyyyyy out of proportion. For example I am only 29 and I don't remember being in a car seat once I was old enough to fit in the seat...talking maybe 2. Now you can get a ticket if the child is out of a seat but under a certian age or height. Airbags, ABS, Shoulder belts, look how long cars were around before these things, did the accident death rate drop by drastic proportions...no. My wife is pregnant right now and I can't tell you the amount of things people tell her not to eat, not to lift, not to go around, blah, blah, blah.... got to wonder how the human race is still going considering for 1,000 of years women probably did about 95% of the things they tell you you can't do while pregnant these days.
 
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