Ban smoking in the home?
New research suggests that passive smoking makes children more vulnerable to serious infections that lead to diseases such as meningitis. There is also evidence that nine out of 10 cases of cot death could be linked to mothers who smoked during pregnancy. So is it time to ban smoking in the home for the sake of our children's health?
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Rod from Rugby says:Sep 20, 19:30
In your own home what you do is your own business. As far as I'm concerned people can smoke, smoke crack, shoot up drugs, do whatever they want because it does not interfere with me.
once it becomes a thing that does interfere with me then yes I would not only ban it I would be standing outside their house with the rest of the vigilante'sShould smoking be banned in the home?No -
Boadicea from Colchester says:Sep 20, 18:30
Those that want to puff themselves to an early death should be allowed to do so - it would mean that the healthy survivers would have more hospital care providing the nhs didn't treat those with smoking related illnesses. Also it would help to keep the taxes going.
Often smokers cannot relate their habit to non-smokers - those only parallel habits I can think are spitting, nose picking and urinating in the street when drunk. -
quattro from in the real world says:Sep 20, 08:05
Not so much banning it in the home but banning it around children.
an adulr can decide to leave the household of a smoker, a child cannot and it is physical abuse to make a child breathe the smoke. i know i was subjected to it at home and in the car by my parents and as a result i developed asthma and was hospitalised often...since leaving home at 17 i am 90% better but when i have to visit my mother..then my symtoms reeturn.Should smoking be banned in the home?Yes -
Dick from Kent says:Sep 20, 08:05
Ban it all together.
Should smoking be banned in the home?Yes -
martin from lancashire says:Sep 20, 06:24
Yes,lets waste all the polices time on this and let the country go to hell,no,its not a case of banning it at home its just a case of attempted murder if children fall ill,they could always of bothered smoking outside,like i do.
Should smoking be banned in the home?No
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