THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, April 5, 1996 TAG: 9604050003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
It is amazing to me that parents are still subjecting their children to the dangers of their cigarette smoking.
If an adult wants to be sick and die from smoking cigarettes, that is his business, but one would think he would want to protect children he loves.
Second-hand smoke is dangerous; yet we see parents in enclosed cars puffing away with children right there, parents sitting with children in smoking areas of restaurants, and parents smoking in the house rather than going outside.
An adult with a cigarette addiction can still protect his children by not smoking around them. Many children are made physically sick from the smoke - more colds, asthma, bronchitis, ear infections, etc.
Our children are learning in school how dangerous cigarettes are - how like drugs they are. Parents who smoke need to think less about their own desires and more about the best interests of their children.
The best thing for these children would be for their parents to stop smoking.
LESLIE K. MAZZIO
Virginia Beach, March 28, 1996 by CNB