Have you heard of this? I was eating dinner with a friend who is a registered dietician and she was telling me how she is required now to tell her patients about the dangers of thirdhand smoke.

My in-laws are all heavy chain smokers and I already had been worried about the baby being around them since the smoke is on their clothes, etc. My husband's take on it is he grew up around all the smoke and he is fine (of course he dips and it drives me completely up the wall). She asked me if I would let them hold the baby while they were smoking, and obviously I said no, and she said the research done on thirdhand smoke shows the same effects.

How would you fight this battle? I am already trying to think of what to say to them in the hospital...them holding the baby makes me extremely uncomfortable.