A smoking mother temporarily lost custody of her 8-year-old asthmatic daughter after evidence was provided showing physical harm to the child from secondhand smoke.  The child was sent to live with her father’s mother.  See “Pack-a-day Smoker Loses Custody,” USA Today, October 15, 1993, 3A.

No. FL840799, (Sacramento Cty. (CA) Probate Court 1993).