Kids friends smoking....

Hanna
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:47:13 +0000

Finally, in response to the parent who equates tobacco and heroin



I’m not a parent, and read my post again. I said that both heroin and tobacco use justify the same RESPONSE. It’s much, much worse for your child to be shot in the head than shot in the foot. The injuries are not equal. But they both demand the exact same response from a parent: a five-alarm, sirens wailing, emergency response.

Although as long as we’re on the subject of comparisons, tobacco kills hundreds of thousands more Americans every year than heroin.



i don’t use her money to buy cigs. so what is she going to do?



If you’re truly financially independent, then maybe nothing. If you’re getting any tuition money from her, though, or living in her house in the summer, there’s plenty she could do.