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LETTER: 'Smoking around kids is not child abuse' 

Dr. John Blatherwick, Vancouver's chief medical officer, is smoking something funny if he thinks exposure to second-hand smoke is "child abuse."

Would he care to explain why asthma in children has risen by more than 680 per cent since 1980 while, during that same time, children were exposed to significantly less second-hand cigarette smoke?

Blaming the majority of children's health woes on that all-too-easy target of second-hand smoke, when there is clearly something else causing these problems, could be an even biggest form of child abuse. And, to add insult to injury, his findings justify an intrusion into our homes by the anti-smoking zealots.

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