Is spending time with your kids in front of the fireplace similarly bad parenting? Because the health effects of an open fire indoors are worse.
To answer your actual question, yes, doing something that is worse than smoking near your kids is bad parenting (unless it's a rare enough event to cause negligible harm).
I will happily have my fireplace burning all day long on a subzero winter day, throwing on the occasional fresh log. But if I have a bonfire outside in summer, I need to be standing upwind.
It would be really surprising to me if it were the case, because secondhand smoke certainly seems like it creates more particulates in a house, since most wood smoke goes up the chimney. Plus, if you smoke, you're probably not only smoking for part of the year, like with fireplace use.
But, my intuition is not a strong argument, so that's why I'd love to see the study.
Also, how is one other (potentially bad or not) activity germain to the one being discussed? What about clowns? What about how Swedish fish candies are made?
Most of it, yes, but there's still a very large increase in particles in the air, far more than when smoking.
> how is one other (potentially bad or not) activity germain to the one being discussed?
My parent was saying "given the health effects, you should not smoke in front of your children". I was asking how they squared this with an activity with much larger health effects that I suspect they think is fine to do with your kids.
Do you have any evidence that indoor wood fires are more damaging that cigarette smoke?