I'm ashamed to admit that I smoke, though I object to the way in which smokers have become social pariahs since the ban on lighting up in public was introduced last year.
By this time next year I hope to have given up, if only to save myself a few bob. In the mean time, I reserve the right to have a fag or two if it helps me get through the stresses and strains of the day.
However, I can't for the life of me understand why anybody who is pregnant would continue to smoke. I remember the hoo-hah when that Kate Garraway off GMTV was spotted smoking while she was expecting. Forgive me for coming over all Mary Whitehouse, but she should have known better.
Now I've been reading about a pregnant woman from Newcastle-under-Lyme who is complaining that she was fined by the council for dropping a fag end in the street.
As a smoker I'd like to sympathise, but I can't. Though I dread the thought of unintentionally torching litter bins and being had up for arson, I always stub my fag ends out and dispose of them like I would any other rubbish.
And there's just something unforgivable about a woman who is heavily pregnant continuing to smoke. We live in englightened times and everybody knows the risks, don't they?
It seems I'm not the only one who is appalled by this situation. Limara Muncey, the woman in question, presumably thought she'd win sympathy by telling her story to The Sentinel newspaper.
But it appears she didn't reckon on the outpouring of scorn that would follow on the paper's website. I'm not sure that some of the criticism is fair, but she'll no doubt be held up as a national example of all that's wrong with Britain today. There have been 37 posts from angry people so far. Take a look at Limara Muncey and her story and see what you reckon...
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