This is outrageous! The dixcrimination against smokers has gone way too far !! All of the smokers I know are polite, friendly, caring people who raise their children to be the same. Do diabetics, overweight people, nearsighted people, tattooed parents, pierced parents, short or tall parents face the same discrimination ? How about nail biters or sports fanatics ? This couple looks like they could give a lot of love to a child and it hardly seems fair.

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When baby-boomers were growing up, everyone's parents
smoked. We not only survived but are the healthiest and largest
generation in history. Maybe it's time to admit smoking is not
the root of all evil.

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i can not believe the above person included diabetics and overweight parents, and tatooed people in comparsion with smoking...... Smoking effects not only the person but the people around them with second hand smoke....which is even more harmful than smoking itself....More people have died being the partner of a smoker and never smoked a cigarette in their lives but developed lung cancer due to second hand smoke......So why expose an adopted child or natural children to second hand smoke and give them a future with a shadow of lung cancer hanging over their heads......... How can a parent with tatoos harm a child......if an adopted parent has diabetes....that diabetes will not affect that child because he is adopted not naturally born to them.... How many people in the United states are overweight....millions......unless they are morbidly overweight it should not affect their parenting.....you can go on and on about this........i think smoking is an unecessary evil that plagues many people, the smell, the possibility of triggering a asthma attack etc etc......Give up the smoking.....and get the child.......and give him or her a healthier start in life......amen

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Second hand smoke causes cancer and other health problems in the recepient. The stench of cigarettes remains on the smoker even if they smoke in a shed or outside for a long time. This stench is the second hand poison that innocents have to breathe. The father will hold his adopted child and transfer this poison to the child from his fingers and clothing and breath. Any non smoker knows that a smoker has been in the house by the smell even though that smoker always smokes out side. My home has to be constantly sprayed with fabric refreshers and aired out because a smoker in my family continues to smoke outside. It is especially noticeable when the smoker and I have been away for several hours and return home to our locked up house. I won"t even go into the stench caused in a smaller enclosed area such as a car or truck. Everyvbody knows how bad that smells. So I agree, no parent should smoke inside, outside or anywhere else because the second hand efffect will eventually damage the health of their innocent chilld.

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I'm not an advocate of smoking, but at what point are the adoption agencies going to draw the line? Are obese people next to be shunned because they cannot teach the adopted child how to eat properly and exercise? If prospective parents (wanting to get pregnant naturally) had to go through the same screening process as adoptive parents, the world would have a population shortage. Perhaps one should have to be licensed to carry a child in their bodies. With as many children in the world that need a home, one would think adoption agencies would be wanting to place children with respectable people who want them.

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