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Judges warn parents to stub out their cigarettes around the children -- or risk losing custody

Steven Masone hasn't lived with ex-wife Susan Tanner for seven years, but he still can't get over one of her habits: chain smoking. It bothers him because it bothers their daughter Elysa, 8, who suffers from asthma. Masone, a minister in Stockton, California, worries that Tanner is aggravating Elysa's condition by lighting up around her. He even got a court order five years ago, barring Tanner from smoking in Elysa's presence. But Tanner's puffing -- and Masone's huffing -- continued. Finally, after Elysa had an asthma attack this month, a doctor said the child would end up in an emergency room...

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