But idk sorry.

I avoid houses and restaurants where people smoke. In some cases, I really like the person, but my options to avoid illness matter more. I am a asthmatic, who tends to get a lot of sinus infections. I know my immune system is compromised due to my asthma and also due to my diabetes.
I recall reading just 30 mins in a smoke filled area is enough to see some damage to the arteries of non-smokers. Then there was a story on the ap the other day where a woman was more prone to cancer if she and her husband both smoked.
Second hand smoke does not have to be visible for you to react to it. I have a brother-in-law who smokes a lot in the house, and I cannot go over there. If I do, I pay dearly, for I cough, I choke and then I usually get nasal irritation or a sinus infection. Even if he refrains from smoking while we are there, there is smoke residue in his walls, curtains, clothing, furniture, etc......
If you are a smoker with an infant, and you never smoke in the house, but do it outside, your child still has exposure. It will be in your skin, your hair, and your clothing. I have a friend whose child got sick whenever he rode in his fathers truck, for the father car-pooled with a smoker. The smoker's clothes left deposits on the seats, despite no one ever having smoked in the cab. Ten years ago, it was a pretty severe case, but not so out of the ordinary any more.

I hope there's no danger in it :) I live with my grandmother and she smokes, she's careful to go out of the room, so I myself am not in her puff of smoke, but I can still smell it. I try to avoid it and just go to another room or different part of the house, but when it's the only place I can live until october, I just have to pray that it's not severe.

I'd just stay out of the way of any house or area that has been smoked in or around...Especially houses, it does lay in the couches and on the drapes and you can even see it on the walls after a while (they turn yellow). I am 10 weeks pregnant and I refuse to go to my boyfriends moms (the fathers mother) house. She is none too happy, because I am also refusing to let the child come over to the house when it is born aswell. I have given her other options such as come over to my house (where no one smokes as opposed to her, her husband, her youngest son (who is 16), and her nephew (who is over a lot) smoke) or make arrangements to go out somewhere public like to a mall or the zoo or a park with the kid. But we're no longer on talking terms, and it is one big fight. However that isn't the only issue I have with her, and it's a mess. But I stand by what I believe in and I know is right. Kids can still inhale the smoke residue that has decided to place up a home in there furniture and walls, and that still is not good for them...Second hand smoke kills. It doesn't have to be fresh smoke to do it either.

Kimmie

Wow, she doesn't sound very smart. My own daughter had the same situationl. Baby's daddy and the family all smoke. We do not. They laughed out loud at my daughter when she told them the effects of smoking on fetus development. In fact, they were passing another cousin's baby around a smoky room, as they were all contemplating this.
Anyway, you have to do what is right for the child. No one else will. I am of a similar nature. I love my friends and family, but no one is going to expose my kids or grandkids to those toxins. Let your mother-in-law? Know you love the smoker, just not the smoker's habits. She sounds like she might be difficult to get along with, also.
I have a friend who just bought a 60 year old home with a knotty pine livingroom. The guy who lived there for 40 years was a smoker, and now my friend is trying to figure out how to get that smell out of the wood? Any ideas from someone?

I have no clue how to get smoke out. I know if you wash the walls and stuff with a strong cleaner they'll lessen the yellow coloring. Good luck to your friend.