It's a good point - and one that I am very sensitive too. But where I hesitate is when the *government* decides what is best for a child. Please, I am NOT advocating as a parental right that one should smoke around your children. Both of my parents were/are smokers, and it drove me crazy. What I am advocating is that a paternalistic government is a far greater threat to the child's freedoms than any brain-dead parent, myself included. Paranoid? Sure, I'm a crazy American. But, in American society, we can sue McDonald's for encouraging us to be overweight. Now, we have suggestions that parents should be held liable for not providing "proper" nutrition for their children. Interestingly, "proper" is determined by government and not common sense. Where does it end? I guess in summary, it really boils down to the parents being responsible and not the nanny state. Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
