MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
So what do you think, should any parent be doing that? The celebrity issue is a whole other story..She obviously has had her issues with smoking-so one could wonder how she could keep her daughter from it. But it's still very odd to see a mother and her 16 year old daughter like that 
She is 16 and according to the caption with the photo the smoking age in the US is 18. Honestly I didn't even know there is a national smoking age. People will debate and question that point about cocaine, but bottom line is that the health effects of cigarettes can't be ignored. I've been thinking about all of this after talking to my mother about how she quit ages ago because her neighbor got terminal lung cancer that eventually spread. I didn't bring it up with her(wasn't going to open that can of worms)- but she smoked in front of her three kids too, and created the second hand smoke danger. I do know she would never have lit up with me, it would have been do as I say and not as I do. So it begs that question as well, but of course she is only 16.
http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?GT1=7701
"Melanie Griffith is taking heat for blowing smoke with her teenage offspring. Last week outside a Beverly Hills boutique, paparazzi snapped the actress, 48, cigarette dangling from her lips, lighting a nicotine stick for a young woman identified as her 16-year-old daughter, Dakota (dad is Don Johnson).
Given that you can't toss a spent butt these days without hitting an antismoking warning, it's not surprising that Melanie's not-so-maternal gesture has earned her a stern rebuke from the American Lung Association.
"I feel sorry for Ms. Griffith's inability to rid herself of this potentially fatal addiction but find it most reprehensible that she would facilitate her daughter's addiction," Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the ALA, told MSN Entertainment when we contacted the organization for comment. "I am surprised by the bland public response. How would the public react to a photo of Ms. Griffith sharing a line of coke with her daughter? Lighting her cigarette is equivalent from a moral and health impact point of view."
According to Dr. Edelman, "Cigarette smoking is the major cause of preventable death in the US, killing about 450,000 Americans each year," and adds, "Virtually all people who die due to this addiction have been hooked in their teens or pre-teens."
This is interesting about her philosophy, some parents do say that. In her case at least it didn't work, but yet she is smoking with her daughter
"Griffith, meanwhile, raised eyebrows in 2000 when she told the New York Daily News, "I have said to my children, 'If anyone comes up to you with pot or any drugs, please tell me first. If you feel like you have to do it, I would rather you do it with me than with somebody else.'" Still, she added, "I would rather they not even try it."
Two years later, she admitted her plan didn't work with son Alexander (dad is Steven Bauer).
"I said that if my son wanted to smoke pot, I would smoke it with him. I did -- and it backfired," she was quoted as telling More magazine. "My thinking was that it would be better for him to do it at home than to go out in the street and get something that would kill him. I thought it was a good idea, but ultimately, it wasn't."
She is 16 and according to the caption with the photo the smoking age in the US is 18. Honestly I didn't even know there is a national smoking age. People will debate and question that point about cocaine, but bottom line is that the health effects of cigarettes can't be ignored. I've been thinking about all of this after talking to my mother about how she quit ages ago because her neighbor got terminal lung cancer that eventually spread. I didn't bring it up with her(wasn't going to open that can of worms)- but she smoked in front of her three kids too, and created the second hand smoke danger. I do know she would never have lit up with me, it would have been do as I say and not as I do. So it begs that question as well, but of course she is only 16.
http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?GT1=7701
"Melanie Griffith is taking heat for blowing smoke with her teenage offspring. Last week outside a Beverly Hills boutique, paparazzi snapped the actress, 48, cigarette dangling from her lips, lighting a nicotine stick for a young woman identified as her 16-year-old daughter, Dakota (dad is Don Johnson).
Given that you can't toss a spent butt these days without hitting an antismoking warning, it's not surprising that Melanie's not-so-maternal gesture has earned her a stern rebuke from the American Lung Association.
"I feel sorry for Ms. Griffith's inability to rid herself of this potentially fatal addiction but find it most reprehensible that she would facilitate her daughter's addiction," Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the ALA, told MSN Entertainment when we contacted the organization for comment. "I am surprised by the bland public response. How would the public react to a photo of Ms. Griffith sharing a line of coke with her daughter? Lighting her cigarette is equivalent from a moral and health impact point of view."
According to Dr. Edelman, "Cigarette smoking is the major cause of preventable death in the US, killing about 450,000 Americans each year," and adds, "Virtually all people who die due to this addiction have been hooked in their teens or pre-teens."
This is interesting about her philosophy, some parents do say that. In her case at least it didn't work, but yet she is smoking with her daughter
"Griffith, meanwhile, raised eyebrows in 2000 when she told the New York Daily News, "I have said to my children, 'If anyone comes up to you with pot or any drugs, please tell me first. If you feel like you have to do it, I would rather you do it with me than with somebody else.'" Still, she added, "I would rather they not even try it."
Two years later, she admitted her plan didn't work with son Alexander (dad is Steven Bauer).
"I said that if my son wanted to smoke pot, I would smoke it with him. I did -- and it backfired," she was quoted as telling More magazine. "My thinking was that it would be better for him to do it at home than to go out in the street and get something that would kill him. I thought it was a good idea, but ultimately, it wasn't."
