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In reply to the discussion: no more, no less. a pediatrician looks at ALL parents as POTENTIAL abusers. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)over things they can do nothing about. Should we stop driving children in cars eg?
I don't know where you live, but just about everywhere I have lived, not in cities btw, there are environmental hazards related to the way of life we are living. Unless we can live without central heating, cell phones, automobiles, air conditioning, water so much of which is polluted, then we face health risks every day.
Fracking, Monsanto's poisonous weed killers, additives to food which we are not allowed to have labeled, the list is endless.
Yet for some people who have become rabid about it, smoking is the only threat to life. Cancers caused by other agents are ignored by them, to the rabid, anti-smoking contingency, we would all live forever if only the government would ban smoking.
No one said we shouldn't try to minimize the dangers, but focusing on one to such extremes as to accuse millions of people of murder, in itself must be a health hazard to those who alow themselves to be so stressed.