Time for me to be blunt - String her up. This woman did nothing short of premeditated murder. For some reason to many people here in the U.S. don’t want to believe that an unborn child is a living person. This woman should face first-degree murder charges, because she made a conscious choice to kill this child.

Re: Mercury_Maniac: I personally read the blue paper submitted to the Surgeon Generals Office many years ago, regarding the effects of second hand smoke. In the report they detailed how they determined that second had smoke was a threat. They placed two small mice in a 20gal fish tank, filled the tank with the smoke from 200 cigarettes (one carton). When the mice died, they autopsied them and measured the amount of carcinogens in their lung tissue. In a follow up, another team submitted findings that concluded that more carcinogens were inhaled on a typical New York street, from internal combustible engines, than can be attributed to second hand smoke in a smoke filled bar, but the specifics of these reports were never widely published, because they would have been detrimental to the C. Everett Coups agenda.

Regarding all of those government statistics: A physician friend of mine advised me that in California he was required to associate any and all respiratory ailments as smoking related if the patient was a smoker, or was subject to second hand smoke, regardless whether there was any evidence of it or not. Additionally, while a State Trooper in Florida, we were advised to associate all accidents where the driver had consumed “any” alcoholic beverages in the past 24 hrs as an alcohol related incident. In both cases the point was to enhance government statistics.

I realize that smoking is a disgusting habit, and is offensive to many, me included in certain situations. But there are many far more dangerous things in our daily lives than second hand smoke.

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