Smokers stink

Last week I was driving with my son to the hospital to visit my mother. On the way there I was behind a car driven by a woman who was smoking. We would stop at a traffic light and then start up again and I would have to drive through the cigarette smoke. At the third stop I noticed something move in the back of her car. I got a closer look and saw that there was a baby in a car seat in the back of her car.

This got me extremely angry. I was thinking that it should be illegal to smoke in a car with a child. It's not--but it should be. There was a police car stopped at the light on the other side of the intersection and I wanted to stop and ask if there is anything that he can do about this woman forcing cigarette smoke into her child's lungs, but I knew there wasn't anything he could do.

Then we arrived at the hospital. With my 2 1/2 year old son holding my hand, I approached the entrance which was surrounded by people smoking. By the time we reached the door we smelled like an ashtray. And right there on the door was a big sign which read, "smoking prohibited within 50 feet of this entrance." Yet, there they were just 10 to 15 feet from the door.

I don't care if these people smoke and kill themselves. Smoke in your car or home (with the windows closed and no children present). I do care that I have to breathe their disgusting smoke and that they force there children to breathe cigarette smoke. We should not even need a law, people should just know better.