On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:57:02 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

My parents smoked. I had a lot of ear infections. One got untreated too
long, and damaged my hearing. I've been wearing hearing aids since age 6.
And will do so for the rest of my life.

My parents didn't smoke. I had a lot of ear infections. I've had some pretty
damned severe cases too. I didn't smoke. Guess what. My son had *severe*
ear infections, bad enough that I had to really put my foot down or they were
going to install "tubes". Go figure.

Not sure why we're answering Halliburton's nutcase post, though.