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A new study says children of divorced parents are more likely to smoke. I love all of the studies that show how much divorce ruins kids. I’m kidding. I really don’t. I know that divorce is traumatic – but coming from a household with divorced parents that stayed together way too long – I can’t help but think in many cases it’s the best choice for the child. More
Given the video that was circulating some years back of a smoking toddler, smoking children isn’t exactly high on what I would describe as the Chic Meter. Yet when Belgium artist Frieke Janssens gets ahold of the concept — and with the help of digital photography — suddenly we’re looking at something else entirely. More
Once upon a time I was a smoker. I was young and free and didn’t give a shit about the health repercussions of such a disgusting habit. Then smoking was banned inside establishments in California. Then it was banned in parks and close to public buildings. Then you became a pariah if you lit up. Then I quit. The public smoking ban probably added years to my life. More
Kids these days may be many things — but apparently very few of them are teen smokers, according to an annual survey. More
My husband and I have gone over this a million times. Sometimes he says he’s done, he’s just going to quit. But then he follows up with this self-indulgent request to “please be understanding if I’m not in the best mood for a few days.” I have heard that proclamation so many times it’s laughable. Now, whenever he says he’s quitting, I just stay quiet and continue with whatever I’m doing. More
That’s just pushing the whole Betty Draper persona way too hard. More
Authorities at the Center for Disease Control said Friday that they will begin focusing on what they deem is a huge influence on children who begin smoking early – the movies. Parents everywhere rejoice that yet another aspect of parental responsibility has been taken off their shoulders. More
It’s 11 at night and my 10-month-old daughter won’t go to bed. My husband is preparing to sleep on the couch, yet again, so the baby and I can have the bed to ourselves. He’s been doing this for months now, and in turn, he’s been getting unbroken sleep —meaning he’s prone to Hulk syndrome, liable to morph into an unrecognizable mass of angry green husband at any given moment. This is one of those moments. Between our yelling and the baby’s crying, I’m genuinely shocked our neighbors haven’t called the police or CPS. More
A man used a child as an ashtray in the U.K. A three-year-old kid. Are you sure you guys still want me to take handgun training? Because I’m not sure if I could be trusted to carry a concealed weapon if anything like this happened to my kid. More
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What would you do if you saw a pregnant woman doing something you found irresponsible or possibly dangerous to the life of her baby? Most people would judge her. Some would confront her. But how far is too far when it comes to telling a woman that she should be thinking about her unborn child? Pulling a gun, that’s too far. More
It’s all in the name of acting. Chekhov would surely be impressed with little Destiny and her mother’s commitment to her character. Destiny was, of course, competing at the epitome of responsible parenting, Toddlers & Tiaras. She was portraying everyone’s favorite “Good Girl Gone Bad,” Sandy from Grease. But to complete the character, she just had to have a fake cigarette. Her mother could not compromise the performance just because her daughter is four years old and doesn’t need to be huffing on anything, real or fake. More
Carla Bruni may have missed the noxious coupling of a smoke and a drink while pregnant with baby Giulia Sarkozy — luxuries she still might be missing consider that she is pregnant again. But former partier Pink says that although there is one thing she does miss from her child-free days, cigarettes definitely aren’t one of them. That must be some patch! More
In the same week that new mom Hilary Duff was caught holding a cigarette – oh, the scandal! – this anti-smoking PSA out of Thailand has been making its rounds. And, I must say, it’s pretty damn powerful. That’s because it has children walking up to smoking adults, pulling out a cigarette and asking for a light. More
My personal opinion is that like a lot of mothers, Hilary Duff – who was recently caught holding a cigarette – is a liar. Duff was trending a couple days ago because the new mom was – gasp! – holding a butt. People, it seems, are mad at her because not only was she caught with a butt in hand but also she’s a new mother, which somehow makes this habit worse.
Duff apologized for it and insisted she was holding the cigarette for a friend. “It looks worse than it is,” she said. Honey, it’s okay. You were caught smoking. Just say you’re trying to quit. I pretty much think/know she’s a liar because no smoker in his or her right mind would give a cigarette to a non-smoker to hold. I know this because I, too, am a part-time smoker. More
