An East Tennessee woman has been charged with forcing her 5-year-old son to smoke a cigarette.

A Carter County deputy told the Johnson City Press that a 24-year-old woman was arrested on charges of child abuse and neglect, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana. A jail officer said the woman was being held on a $12,500 bond. Jail records did not show if the woman had hired a lawyer. Deputy Cory Tidwell said that in response to a complaint by a witness, he stopped the woman in her car and she told him she had forced her son to smoke a cigarette because "she was teaching him not to smoke." Tidwell also said he found a small bag of marijuana in the car.

Source: Johnson City Press, http:// www.johnsoncitypress.com

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