How wrong is this?!

At Joshua's daycare there is a lovely little boy who he has become quite friendly with.

Yesterday, I was dropping him off, and the other little boy was getting dropped off at the same time. Joshie saw him and wanted to run over and see him at his car. So I took him over, and as the mum was getting out I saw that both her, and another woman in the front seat were smoking cigarettes

This is wrong on so many levels - the obvious: that they were smoking in a car with a child in there. And also, you are not allowed to smoke on daycare land.

Wondering if I should mention it to daycare... Although I think they'd probably know, as I bet the poor wee thing turns up reeking of smoke

Poor kid. You could probably say something to the daycare and to prevent her from smoking on DC grounds but he's her child and if she wants to kill him slowly and painfully by subjecting him to passive smoke at home or in her car then there's nothing anyone else can do.

The odd thing is despite all the evidence to the contrary some people think it's ok to smoke around children. My MIL has told me numerous times that smoking around her kids never caused them any harm but when I read DH's plunket book I see he'd had asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis all before he was 1 (not to mention the fact that all but 2 of her 8 kids are smokers now) - there's no getting through to some people.

DH worked for awhile with a pregnant lady that smoked and when I was 38 weeks pregnant (and huge) I was collecting for child cancer in the middle of wellington and a guy stood next to me and lit up joking that it probably didn't look to good smoking next to a child cancer sign - idiot (I told him where to get off).

I'm only recently an ex-smoker myself but I'd never ever smoke around children or in playgrounds.

Edited by MrsMojo

Very wrong & very selfish

I smoke but try to maintain a smokefree environment for my boys ie not inside our house or car

I can't stand it when people smoke around kids... In my opinion there should be smoking bans on some public places (bus stops, Main street footpaths mainly) as you really can't avoid it, but it's not that hard to find a side street, walk 20 steps away from the bus stop, etc and stand to have your ciggy (easier than for a pregnant mum or someone with kids to have to move away and then rush over when the bus comes)

I don't know how people can bear cigarette smoke (no offence to those who smoke). It makes me feel ill just getting one wiff of the stuff. Poor kids.