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In reply to the discussion: Good f**king grief...... [View all]Hekate
(90,189 posts)If there is a correlation, many things can then be a trigger later on, not just the original source. I'm curious if the study mentioned that, and not just for myself. I don't "blame passing cigarettes", sabrina; I'd like to know if the study looked into the childhood environment of asthmatics.
I've mentioned before that my parents were smokers and our house was full of smoke. Children can't escape the air inside their own homes, can they? Most of my animosity towards cigarettes is not toward individual smokers but Big Tobacco because of the addictive nature of the product and how cruelly my mother struggled and failed to break herself of the habit until cancer finally settled in and she was able to make the break permanent.
As an adult-onset asthmatic I am quite grateful for the changing ethos that has cleaned up the recirculated air inside offices, restaurants, and airplanes, and that everyone nowadays thinks it would be rude to light up inside anyone's home without explicit permission. I used to keep an ashtray for the convenience of my friends, but over 35 years ago it was rendered redundant without a word from me.