On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:42:06 -0700, chaniarts
wrote:

On 6/7/2012 9:37 AM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 07:40:28 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

My parents were both smokers. I had ear infections often. And, one got left
too long, the infection damaged my hearing. I'll have to wear hearing aids
for the rest of my life.

Anecdote evidence
Corelatoin causation

My son had terrible ear infections, too. No smoke involved at all. He grew
out of it.

Folks, please do not smoke around children, ever. Better, do not smoke,
ever.

Good idea, but not realistic. The smoking rate in the US is rather low,
actually.


it's still 20% (as of 2010), but down significantly from 1965 (42%).

i don't really consider 20% as low.\

In comparison to much of the rest of the developed world, it's pretty low and
falling.