By Kristen L. Shelby
Western Sun staff writer
I have some serious issues with a large group of people, those being smokers who choose to puff away in their cars, or in confined areas with helpless children and pets.
It is one thing to endanger your health, but your own child? Come on now! Have some common sense here people!
For those of you who have ever had breathing problems or just an everyday cold, imagine how it feels to have asthma, bronchitis, or worse…emphysema caused by your less than caring parents.
I have never smoked a cigarette but in certain times omy life my lungs have been so filled with the filthy smoke during trips to Vegas, or just sitting on an outside patio at a bar that I feel like I have personally smoked a pack in one sitting.
I feel like it is a form of child endangerment, in a way, when you see a child trapped in a smoke-filled car with no hope for escape.
Must smokers push their filthy habit on their loved ones? Is it necessary to attempt shortening their lives too?
If you want to smoke away your life so be it, but leave innocent bystanders out of the dangerous loop of health issues to come.
The smell of cigarettes permanently lingers on your breath, your clothes, your car, everything you touch smells. How is it possibly attractive to someone?
I just don’t get it!
When I see someone driving along with their windows rolled up smoking their life away, I sadly think that the chances are likely high that they endured this same treatment from their parents and the damage.
