Smoking Ban In England Cuts Child Hospital Admissions

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32918513

Case of the bleeding obvious to me. Why didn't we do this earlier ?

[Zacs-Master]

'We'? I thought you were Welsh.

[mikey4444]

Zacs...I am English, and live in Wales, although I am unsure what that has to do with my post. The we was a royal we.

[Svejk]

Pure nonsense from a group that's pushing for more restrictions on smoking/liberty.

[chrissa1]

Couldn't agree more, Svejk. What a load of, tosh.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26770009

The evidence is overwhelming.

[Zacs-Master]

Really? Ok.

[Svejk]

Probably from the same EU groups who threaten tighter regulations on cigarette companies in order to extract bribes from them.

[Svejk]

^News you'll never hear from the BBC who, of course, accept their own 'bribes' from the EU.

[chrissa1]

36 years ago when smoking started to be shown to harm an unborn child, I cut down, drastically. My son was born weighing, 6lbs 3oz. Four years later I didn't smoke at all when pregnant with my daughter and she was born weighing, 6lbs 8oz. Not a massive difference.

[mikey4444]

Chrissa...what does your extremely small sample prove ?

The evidence is quite clear....if you don't expose your children to smoking, they are likely to be healthier. Doesn't that make common sense to you ?

[Prudie]

Complete tosh, the figures may be less because their parents have given up and there are more smoke free homes but the smoking ban only really affected pubs and restaurants. Not exactly the prime haunts of children. Plus the figures were based on a prediction - by students!

[mikey4444]

Prudie...couldn't the ban on smoking in public places have been a factor in encouraging adults to quite smoking ?

And if children see their parents no longer smoke, might that not also encourage then not to start smoking ?

[ummmm]

Mikey. I was brought up in a pub. I remember coming downstairs into the bar and my eyes would be stinging within seconds from the cigarette smoke. I've worked in pubs on and off throughout my adult life

I rarely get ill.

[chrissa1]

I can remember thinking at the time, what a small difference there was in their weights. I think I was expecting a much bigger affect.

That said, I agree with not smoking around children in the house now and, would never do it when I pick up my two granddaughters in a few minutes, for the day. I smoked all through my children's upbringing and it had no I'll affect on them.

[chrissa1]

How can a sweeping statement be made by this study when there is no "control group?"

[TWR]

Ummmm, Roy Castle!!!!

[ummmm]

And for every Roy Castle there are 1000's that aren't affected.

[mikey4444]

Ummm...I am glad for you but, like Chrissa, your experience isn't statistically relevant. My Mum smoked from the age of about 14-15 and died of lung cancer at age 63....much in the way that her parents did at the same age.

I will repeat what I have already said, many times, about smoking. Its just common sense. We heard the same arguments years ago, when the link between smoking and lung cancer was first identified. The argument went along the lines of "well, my Dad smoked for ears and died when he was 99"

That was tosh and this current backlash against health reforms is tosh as well. I feel sorry for the people who still have to smoke but they have nothing to lose but their chains.

[mikey4444]

If there is anybody else who doubts the link between smoking and health should read the attached link, from the Welsh Government.

I should declare an interest here, as I work on the Welsh Health Survey.

Key headline ::: Smoking continues to be the greatest single cause of avoidable mortality in Wales. I have reason to think it is any different in England, Scotland and NI.

http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/tobacco-health-wales/?lang=en

[naomi24]

Just an observation but I fail to understand the 'holier than thou' attitude of people who are grossly overweight and who have the gall to criticise people who subject themselves to similarly damaging health risks. Eat healthily - you have plenty to lose - including your chains.