Editor:

I have two friends whose parents smoke.

I feel really bad because it's hurting them more than their parents because they are only nine-year-old girls and more vulnerable than adults.

I wish sometimes that I could just make their parents stop with a flick and a swish, but, I can't.

So I think there should be a ban to protect kids and adults just the same who don't smoke and have the right to have smoke free air when they're in public.

Alisha Kifer

Fallston

The writer is in fourth grade.