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How You Can Fight Back If Your Spouse Smokes Around Your Child

Are you involved in a dispute over custody, and your spouse smokes in the presence of  the child and/or permits others to do so?

Are you separated or divorced, and worried about the health of your child when he or she is with the other parent who smokes in the child's presence?

If so, you should read ASH's preliminary report on custody and smoking.

In it you will learn that, in more than a dozen states, courts have ruled that whether or not a child is subjected to tobacco smoke is a factor which should be considered in deciding custody.

You will also find out that in several situations a parent who smoked around a child lost custody of the child as a result.

You can read about some of these judicial decisions to help you decide what your rights (and the rights of  your child) are in such situations.

Moreover, in other states where the courts have not yet had to address the issue, these court rulings will provide valuable precedent which you and your lawyer can use as ammunition to protect your child from the proven harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke.

As a public service to help parents of children who are being subjected to the many known dangers of secondhand tobacco smoke, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a 32-year old legal-action charitable organization entirely supported by tax-deductible contributions, has put together a description of some of the leading judicial decisions in this area of the law.

This document can be downloaded by clicking on the link below.

Please note, however, that this information is available only to member-supporters of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).  To find out how you can become a member of ASH on line, and to obtain access to this and other valuable information for members as well as several special gifts, please click here to learn the many benefits of joining ASH on-line, over the Internet.

Once you join -- which you can do conveniently over the Internet -- you will receive by e-mail the user name and password you need to unlock this valuable information.  Your other gifts will be send to you by mail.

Please don't hesitate.  Drifting tobacco smoke already kills more people that motor vehicle accidents, all crimes, AIDS, illegal drugs, etc.  In other words, people are statistically more likely to die as a result of drifting tobacco smoke than by a car, gun, or the  AIDS virus.

Your contribution to join ASH is fully tax deductible.

Once you have become a member of  ASH  you can access the information about protecting your rights as a nonsmoking parent --  including a growing list of valuable legal precedents -- by  clicking on the following web site:
ASH's Custody and Smoking Page
 

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