And those stories from the link are heartbreaking.

If it\’s merely a matter of giving the impression to your child that smoking is OK, well — it is, as with anything, in moderation. The registration for this site asks about your favorite beer! Is it OK to drink in front of your kid?

The title brands the stroller-pushing dad as a \”selfish asshole.\” What about moms who will not breast-feed their kids, or schedule cosmetic c-sections? Or parents who drop their kids in day-care at a young age? Or divorce? Or cry-it-out?

As for in moderation I couldn\’t disagree with you more. Drinking beer and smoking are not even in the same league. Smoking in moderation is NOT good.

As for not breast feeding a baby, some babies just simply can\’t between allergies and anatomy, so I\’m not even going there.

Parents dropping their kids off at day care at young ages is not selfish but often more out of a financial need to meet the bills and put food on the table or pay for the education that will help their children grow up to understand why the shouldn\’t smoke.

Divorce………a spouse leaving due to abuse or neglect is far from selfish, more like selfless.

I too am the child of a 30+ year smoking parent, therefore I understand addiction. What I don\’t understand is not having at least the desire to quit out of respect for oneself and one\’s family.

Welcome to noodad.com. Thanks for joining the site. I am happy to see you here.

Let\’s cut to the chase. There is a huge difference between drinking beer and smoking. If I drink a beer, no matter how close I stand to you, you will not become intoxicated. Smoking is thought of as an individual activity, but it is not. You are sharing that smoke with the community. You are polluting the air that I ALSO need to breathe. You are standing in the doorway that I ALSO NEED TO ENTER. Smoke stays in doorways. It collects under the roof of that open air train stop. You are oblivious to this because you just had the cigarette, but people like me who do not indulge in cancer sticks are breathing this stuff and we DID NOT CHOOSE TO DO SO. Your moderation argument is faulty. Try comparing apples to apples next time. If you are thinking that a person who drinks beer could harm another person who is not drinking, that is true and is another form of abuse, however the actual act of drinking beer did not cause the harm.

I fail to see how any of the list of things that you mentioned after your flimsy retort compares to smoking, which effectively slowly kills everyone around (and including) the user.

Harry, there are certainly exceptions to every rule. Ideally, I\’m sure all parents would want to breast feed and raise their kids themselves instead of shipping them off to a petting zoo run by chain-smoking smeth addicts so that they can afford a decent public education at the Indoctrination Center.

I don\’t have the least desire to quit smoking because I enjoy smoking. I also shoot skeet now and then, but I don\’t toss babies into my line of fire and watch the infantestines fly.

Idling your car while loading your kids in it is exposing them to fumes many times worse than second-hand smoke.

Some scientists consider UV radiation bad to ANY degree. Would you endanger your child by exposing any part of them to the evil sun?

Seriously, though, I applaud anyone trying to make the world a better place for kids, and smoking in an enclosed space is at best not good for a child, but the hyperbole here does a disservice to a the message, as evidenced by my personal outrage at being branded a selfish asshole for indulging in something that, as I practice it, is [i]not[/i] harmful to my child.