secret smoker

ok, so on my way to work yesterday, after dropping my daughter off at school in town, i chanced to meet someone on her way back home from taking her children to school....no big news there.....as everybody is doing about that same thing in this time slot....but espying her in her van was not the news...it was watching her light up at the light that grabbed my attention......i didn't know she smokes......i never dreamed that she smokes...her house doesn;t smell like smoke......is she such a closet smoker that her own family doesn't know......?......not that it is ANY of my business.......but smokers are a fascinating breed to me.....in light of all we know about second hand smoke.....smoking is bigger than the smoker if the second hand smoke involves others.......i saw a toddler this morning in the course of my job that reeked of smoke as i weighed and measured him.....and i must admit to more than the usual ire toward the mother and the grandmother about smoking in the house/car where this child, with a runny nose and red watery eyes, cannot escape the dangers......'i'll smoke when and where i want' is downright abusive when this act of free 'speech' invades the airspace of others, let alone 2-year olds.......but back to the closet smoker.......one wonders what she'll think when her children take up right after her......her having made it look more glamouroud/desirable because of her sceretiveness........mommy's little secret is probably no secret at all........