My dad smokes around me an in the house and when I ask him to stop he doesn't, what should I do?

[Electra Heart]

I'm 14, my dad picks me up from school and he smokes in the car when I'm in there with him, if I tell him to put it out he'll say "the smoke is going right out the window" or "it's my car ill do it if I want to, if you don't like it then you'll have to walk home". When he drives me to school too he smokes sometimes but rarely because I've told him it bugs me, my friends tell me I smell like smoke. My friend has asthma and doesn't like to come over to my house because my dad smokes in the house. I've asked him to stop and he does he's just not consistent with it. He's also not willing to quit. I just don't want to smell like smoke anymore and I've read some things about second hand smoke and Id just like for it to stop before it puts both mine and my dads health at risk

[Cnthia]

see if you can get some pamphlets from the American cancer society and give them to your dad. he needs to know that second hand smoke kills more americans ( lung cancer ) then any other cancer. its not about you just smelling like smoke but about your health and his. if he is unwilling to do this for the health of himself tell him to do it for the health and welfare of you and the family. if he does not want to stop then maybe you should consider going to live with a relative to protect your health since he wont

[Kayl]

There really is nothing you can do. He already know the risks of smoking but he isn't going to stop. Sorry but it is his car, it is his house. He sounds like an ass but there's nothing you can do

[tgit23]

Learn to accept. Accept that everyone else in the world doesn't revolve around your every wish and if a little smoke in the air is your biggest issue you've got it pretty darn good.

Might make you feel better to know that Anti-Smoker organizations and their so called facts were busted wide open in a federal court.

------ Court rules that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is NOT a Class A carcinogen
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/980717osteen.html
“There is evidence in the record supporting the accusation that EPA ‘cherry picked’ its data” … “EPA's excluding nearly half of the available studies directly conflicts with EPA's purported purpose for analyzing the epidemiological studies and conflicts with EPA's Risk Assessment Guidelines” (p. 72)

-------- Secondhand smoke is as safe as dust
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
“Among never smokers in our population, we observed no association between either exposure to ETS at home or at the workplace and lung cancer risk”(p. 5)
“Our results support the concept that exposure to exhaust fumes and or soot/smoke (***from non-tobacco
sources***) is a source of carcinogenic exposure.” (p. 7)
“ETS exposure was not found to significantly increase risk among never smokers in this study”(p.7)

-------- PURPOSELY misleading the public with MEDIA STRATEGIES -------
The Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health was enacted by Congress in 1984 which is a collection of Health and Human Services, American Heart and Lung Association, National Cancer Institute, World Health Organization, CDC and many other government funded health organizations. (eliminating any independent sources of information).

Below are direct quotes from those meeting notes:
“Social (Un)acceptability of smoking will be decisive TOOL an the road to a smoke-free society.” Using “four mechanisms: - passive smoking, - social cost, - ELIMINATE ALL INFLUENCES in society which could reflect favorably on smoking, - educational campaigns for children (App.II) “

“although passive smokers may suffer considerable subjective discomfort, a lasting adverse health effect is probably not likely to result in otherwise healthy, grown-up individuals . “

““Lindahl concluded that it is difficult to demonstrate harmful effects of passive smoking on healthy nonsmokers ; there is little proven in this area”

“He admitted that he couldn't explain how or why smoking harmed the fetus but suggested that, instead of worrying about such fine points, women be told that all unborn children of smoking women will be hurt “

“We're moving out of the horse and cart era, we're not yet in the jet age of MEDIA STRATEGIES, but we're getting there “

Review of Notes and all contents: http://rampant-antismoking.com/
Actual meeting notes: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/efp57a00/pdf