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Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Smokers Should Lose Custody Of Their Kids, Says Nation’s Top Asshole Anti-Tobacco Lawyer

Parents who smoke around their kids should be challenged for custody, according to the country’s leading anti-tobacco lawyer.

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Is the Government Trying to Criminalize Your Basic Parenting Decisions?

Is the Government Trying to Criminalize Your Basic Parenting Decisions?

It’s no secret that cigarette smoke, even second hand, is dangerous for everyone around it. MyFoxDC reports on the latest legislation aimed at smokers,

Monday, February 23, 2015

E-cigarette smoker banned from adopting children by social worker

E-cigarette smoker banned from adopting children by social worker

A childless couple "desperate for a family" has been barred from adopting after the would-be-father was seen smoking an e-cigarette.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Smoke-free foster care is common sense; state should act

Smoke-free foster care is common sense; state should act

Some of Minnesota’s most vulnerable children are at risk from the serious effects of secondhand smoke. It’s time for the state to act in the best interest of children in foster care and protect them from the known cancer-causing poisons and toxins in secondhand smoke. This is why I have introduced a bill in the legislature to prohibit smoking in foster care homes.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

How a smoking habit affects your child custody case

How a smoking habit affects your child custody case

There are many effects on a child when their parents get a divorce. Aside from the obvious confusion they will feel towards the separation and the questions they will have about the divorce, there is the matter of legally establishing where they will spend their time and how they will be raised.

Could smoking affect the outcome of a child custody case?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Smokers losing child custody cases a growing trend

Smokers losing child custody cases a growing trend

If you smoke cigarettes, by now you have heard all the reasons you should quit: the harm to your health, the expense, the limits on where you can indulge your habit.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Couple banned from fostering due to two cigars

Couple banned from fostering due to two cigars

A couple have been left heartbroken after "politically correct" council bosses banned them from fostering a child because the husband had smoked two celebratory cigars in 18 months.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Honduras law lets family members call in police on people who smoke at home

Honduras law lets family members call in police on people who smoke at home

The last refuge is vanishing for besieged smokers — at least in Honduras. A new law that took effect Monday says family members can call in the police on people who smoke at home.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Tobacco Company Found Guilty of Giving Free Cigarettes to Black Children

Tobacco Company Found Guilty of Giving Free Cigarettes to Black Children

A North Carolina-based tobacco company tried to entice African-American children to become smokers by handing out free cigarettes in Boston during the 1950s and 1960s, a jury ruled on Dec. 14, awarding $71 million in compensatory damages to the estate and child of a woman who died of lung cancer in 2002.

Monday, August 09, 2010

A British System Suck Says...

Smoking in front of youngsters 'is child abuse'

Prof Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said parents should take more responsibility, starting even before conception.

Cot deaths are linked to mothers smoking while pregnant and evidence from America shows that more children are killed from the effects of parental smoking than by accidents, he said.

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