Originally Posted by timewarrior2001

Touching no doubt, smoking is bad.

However its not just snoking that affects asthma in adults as well as children so lets not pretend it is huh?

Lets not preach to others when the very core of our civilisation, industry and the internal combustion engine, can cause as much if not more damage than a cigarette.

I have smoked on and off since I was 17.
I went to join a gym yesterday and my PEF reading was off the scale, compared to my non smoking partner who could only manage 350, I hit 900 plus.
Thats 900 litres of air an hour apparently, so much for smoking affecting the lungs.

I live in a heavily industrialised area, my parents both smoked, my mother longer than my father, they have both now quit. I smoke, and yet I can see no physical problems with myself. Doesnt mean its ok to smoke I understand that, but some people are more suseptible than others.

And yet we have children, many of whom live in smoke free houses, in the countryside and suffer from asthma, isnt it about time we looked for other causes other then blaming the cigarette for all childhood illnesses such as asthma?

Asthma was a lot more common when I was gorwing up than it is now, I know of only 2 children who suffer from it, yet at school most kids carried an inhaler.

I know I sound like I am defending smoking I'm not, but lets just lay of it a little bit huh? Its not solely to blame for the illnesses in our kids.