[Smoking] Today's Reason to Kill Smoking

Comes from BBC News: 

Investigators say the findings, from a study of over 1,500 US teens aged 12 to 19, suggest that secondhand tobacco smoke directly damages young ears.

And the greater the exposure the greater the damage.

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Once again, science bequeaths us the knowledge that smokers are not only killing themselves, but screwing up everyone else's lives, too.

Got a kid? Got kids who have friends? Smoke around them? Not only are you quite likely offering them the wondrous gift of lung cancer, but you're also helping them go through their shortened lives half-deaf. Go, you. 

So now, if your secondhand smoking kid gives you trouble and you scream at him/her/it "Why don't you ever LISTEN TO ME!?", well, now you know. 

It's because they can't hear you because you've smoked their ears full of deafness. 

[ Standard disclaimer: If you smoke, I love you just the same as I love anybody else. Don't go taking this all personal and junk. Okay, carry on. Happy Thursday. ]