Can you be friends with a smoker mom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post cracks me up. "i know some smokers who are really nice..." Seriously? Are smokers typically mean and unfriendly? It's a bad, social habit. It's not indicative of a bad person. Get a grip. Hang out with them or don't but let's not go throwing them in the same category as felons, gangbangers and pediophiles (you know, actual bad people).

I was thinking the same!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody has flaws. I always like to point out how holier than thou people fall, like republicans who have crazy gay affairs etc. this woman is not hiding her flaw. Consider she may be more open and honest than your friends with secret Xanax addictions or who drink two bottles of wine a night or cheat on their spouses.

Yes, agree!

[Anonymous]

My best friend is a smoker and I love her dearly and my daughter will consider her an aunt. We don't live in the same city and only see each other once a year. But, when we do she either smokes away from me or recently moved to e-cigarettes. (I have asthma and one of my triggers is cigarette smoke).

I encourage her to give up her habit for the sake of her child and her own health, but I couldn't imagine not being friends with her because she smoked.

[Anonymous]

I couldn't. No way. Yuck.