Is Smoking Around Children a Form of Child Abuse?

Published on January 15, 2016April 2, 2016 by Mountain Peeks Editor

Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse, says one of the nation?s leading child abuse experts, and it?s high time we recognize it as such.

?More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined,? says James Garbarino, an internationally recognized expert on child protection and the director of Cornell University?s Family Life Development Center. These deaths include almost 3,000 annually due to low birth weight, 2,000 due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and another 1,300 attributed to respiratory infection, asthma, and burns, according to researchers in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Are Young Smokers More Likely to Litter and Use Illegal Drugs?

Published on December 15, 2015September 18, 2018 by Mountain Peeks Editor

If you have ever wondered if youth, smoking, illegal drug use, and littering have anything in common, wonder no more. The following findings should cause even the most radical smokers’ rights fanatic to shiver: “Results of this study deliver a strong cautionary message that those who smoked cigarettes before the age of 15 were up […]

Judge Finds That Major Tobacco Companies Lied to and Defrauded Consumers and Marketed Directly to Children

Published on December 15, 2015September 18, 2018 by Mountain Peeks Editor

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a final opinion in the U.S. government’s landmark lawsuit against the major tobacco companies that found the companies have violated civil racketeering laws and defrauded the American people by lying for decades about the health risks of smoking and their marketing to children.