Question about possible abuse

Re: Question about possible abuse

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I'm a 14 year old girl and my mom as well as my sister and brother have been smoking cigarettes in the house around me. My mom has been doing it for as long as I can remember, my sister for a year and my brother for three and a half. My mom's also having difficulty coping with the death of my father who passed away last April and she has started drinking. I've talked to all of them about stopping because I was being bullied at school and cutting, but they all ignored me. I'm very frustrated because I have no relatives that I can go to, and they would all be on my mom's side anyways. I looked up the laws for child abuse in my state and they didn't say anything about smoking, but I did have bronchitis when I was younger as a result, so my questions are: Is this physical abuse? If so, what should I do?

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