When you were a kid did your parents smoke?

Question

my dad did in the house in car. And no one complained.My wife smokes I can"t stand the smell and I smoked for forty years I have not for the last ten years But when I was a little kid I did not smoke and it did not bother me or any one else WHY

Answer 1

Lots of questions . . .

When I was a 'kid' - NO - I did not smoke

My parents did not smoke

When my mother's card club came to the house, perhaps one or two ladies in the group did smoke one or two cigarettes. . . and boy did she gripe after they left . . .

she was total death on that foul, nasty, habit!!!

Now - when I was almost 18, and all my friends did smoke - I took up the habit to 'fit' in the group . . . cigarettes were $3 a carton then . . . and within no time, I was smoking a pack a day. . . then increased to 2 packs a day . . . and kept it up 'till age 58!

I've been smoke free for 3 years now, and am sporting the additional 60 pounds of body weight, to prove it. . . I figured if smoking didn't kill me in that amount of time? perhaps quitting would - faster!!!

We'll see - oh - and the smell of burning tobacco?

I think I'll luv it, 'till the twelfth of never . . .!!!

Why the smell bothers you now?

Hmmmm who knows your nose - better than you?

Answer 2

I live with my mother who is constantly smoking. It's annoying and I have to go to school smelling like it. I don't think that if you smoke once or twice a month you're a bad parent but I do think you should quit. Edit: Just because my mom smokes, it doesn't encourage me to smoke....It makes me not want to smoke, in fact I know I will never pick up a cigarette or anything of that matter. Also, I wouldn't marry or date someone who smoked either.

Answer 3

I think it bothers you now because once you quit smoking the senses all come back and you can smell and taste better. When you are a kid it was just something you were used to because you didn't have a choice... Your parents smoked with or without your approval.

As an adult you chose to quit so now you notice it a lot more and that is why I think it bothers you so much.



My parents did smoke when I was a child. I myself am currently a smoker.. Hoping to quit within the next year or two.

Answer 4

My step father smoked. Mother did not. I rather liked the smell of Dads cigarettes. Maybe that is one reason I smoked for 8 years.

As I age I am less and less tolerant of the smell. My husband smokes and I hate the smell of the house sometimes. I wish he would go outside to smoke but if he did I would never see him. He is a heavy smoker.

Answer 5

I smoked for 40 years illness has really forced me to quit.My mother smoked my daughter smokes. Bad tradition to pass on. I started smoking because that was the only way I could tolerate the smell. My friends all smoked you went out with a boy he smoked. Making out couldn't stand the taste. So I started smoking. { I guess to make out}. I have not smoked in 10 months and my domestic partner still smokes. Came to bed stinking like crazy and is putting a damper on our sex life.

I know from Human observation though generally men are better at quiting. So be patient with your wife. I have no choice if I want to live another few years. Good Luck

Answer 6

My Mom never smoked but my Dad smoked until I was about 12 years old. It never bothered me or my siblings who are old enough to remember. I don't remember and objectionable smell. We didn't have a car then so I guess we never were in really close quarters with the smoke. None of my 6 siblings smoke. I always wanted to but didn't because of my kids. But they all grew up to be smokers anyway. I started smoking at age 41!

Crazy, huh?

Answer 7

My father smoked but my mother did not. My dad never smoked in the house and only in the car if he could open the windows. Years ago most everyone smoked and if it bothered us we never knew. Maybe that is why children had so many colds and ear infections...I don't know. It's possible that chemicals were not added to the tobacco years ago and maybe cigarettes were safer. When I was young my dad carried a small can of leaf tobacco and rolled his own cigarettes. I can only guess but my guess is there were not so many chemicals in the tobacco and probably none when it was in the can, so now the chemicals are the problem more so than the tobacco itself.

Answer 8

My parents both smoked and it did not bother me as a child. I don't know why. Maybe I was just fascinated by the fact that my father smoked a pipe. I smoked for over 20 years,but I quit. The smell of smoke bothers me alot now and irritates my eyes and nose. I make people smoke outside because I have a pet rabbit indoors. He doesn't deserve the second hand smoke.

Answer 9

Both my parents smoked. My mother went through 3 packs a day, but probably smoked only 1. She would have several cigarettes constantly burning throughout the house. What I hated most was being in the car with both parents smoking on a hot day. The rarely let my brother or me crack a window, and there was no auto air conditioning.

Answer 10

Nope they don't.

Smoke didn't really bother me as a kid. I actually use like the smell. I've only tried smoking, never got addicted. I can't stand the smell now. I try to get away from people that are smoking.

Answer 11

My father sometimes smoked cigars or a pipe. My mother started smoking at aroung age 35. I just thought it was a way of life because all our family friends smoked. My mother passed away in 1977 and my father will be 96 in a few days. Most of my friends who smoked when younger have now stopped. I have never smoked other than the usual curiosity when young to find out how it was.

Answer 12

My parents didn't, but it seemed that everyone else did ! Buses, planes and trains were full of cigarette smoke...when the windows were closed on a bus it was terrible ! Smoking at work was normal - in my first job, I was a clerk in a huge room with about 100 others...ashtrays were on nearly every desk, and we smoked as we did our work. Nobody seemed to think much about it .



Now, smoking rules are so strict....I've seen people confront smokers and give them a dressing-down just for smoking near them in a public place. I don't smoke any more, but do think that some anti-smokers are like Nazis about it ! Live and let live, I say :-)

Answer 13

My mum smokes, and she smokes in every room in the house and in the car. I gave up for 3 years but began again a couple of months ago. I never smoke in the house and can't stand the smell of the smoke on my clothes when i've been to my mums house. I suppose when i was growing up, i had never known the house to smell any different to smokey, so i had nothing to compare it to.

Answer 14

My dad smoked like a chimney. He has since quit. I don't think people knew as much about the dangers of second hand smoke years ago. I am sure if we did my mom would not have let my dad smoke in the car and house.

Answer 15

Both of my parents smoked. I smoke and my two brothers smoked. One brother quit about 34 years ago. Former smokers often complain that smoke bothers them. I think it is all in their heads. Ever notice no one was allergic or complained about smoke until sometime in the late 80s or early 90s? I quit for 7 months once. It didn't bother me.

Answer 16

My father smoked cigarettes for years when he was in the Royal Navy and in his later years when he retired he smoked a pipe and the occasional cigar. I still love the smell of pipe tobacco burning and cigars too. My mother has never touched a cig in her life although her mother smoked like a chimney as did my aunties and uncles. But mum never did....don't know why.

Both Tc's parents smoked when he was a little boy but they both stopped later in life.

We both smoke now and have done for the past 30+ years. We smoke handrolling tobacco. Both our daughters' smoke handrolling tobacco too.

Answer 17

My parents did not smoke - but they did smoke cigarettes! (Sorry!) - - - You cannot stand the smell of cigarette smoke now because you are a reformed smoker! It did not bother you when you were a kid because you had not been subjected to constant brainwashing (Do Not Smoke) by the health care specialists! You had nothing to compare it to.

CJ

Answer 18

Both parents smoked, even in the car, I was the one by the window with head hanging out and being sick. Most of us kids ended up being smokers also, I quit 12 years ago.

Answer 19

I remember adults smoking around me when I was a kid. The smell never bothered me either, but actually smelled good to me. Now, when I smell cigarette smoke or a dirty ashtray, it smells horrible. Perhaps there's something in the cigarettes that wasn't there years ago.

Answer 20

Yes, in the house and the car. I hated it in the car and would ask them crack the window just a tiny bit. They rarely did. I remember in the winter coming in from playing outside and a heavy blanket of smoke would be just about head high to me. I hated it.

When riding in the car with just mother she would ask me to light her cigs for her. I began smoking about 13-14 and still do. But I sit in the office with an open window now matter the weather or temperature. Or if the house has small kids I go out on the front or back porch. I've always hated to pollute others space with my smoke.

Answer 21

Both my parents and grandparents smoked. I never did and always hated it. It's the last thing you smell at night and the first thing in the morning. I always had earaches and my brother had bronchitis ,and both have been attributed to cigarette smoke.

My mom died at 58 of a brain hemmorhage that the doctors attributed to smoking. It apparently coats the arteries with plaque .

Answer 22

Nope they never did.

My guy smoked it never bothered me either, in fact I miss the smell of tobacco it was clean smell to me.

Nowadays, intolerant people don't like what you do they say they are allergic. An allegic reaction involves hives breaking out in the skin, your throat closes up and you have to go to the emergency ward for shot to stablize you.

If you just cough or something your just sensitive it has nothing to do with allergies.

Answer 23

My dad smoked a pipe--everywhere! My mother and my aunts from her side of the family never smoked. All of my uncles, except one, were heavy smokers. The only uncle I have left (you guessed it) is the non smoker. In the old days you were seen as weird if you didn't smoke. I think we were so used to it that we just didn't notice it. Now days, if you enter a place where there's been even one smoker, it just stinks. Thank God things have changed.

Answer 24

My parents smoked. Everyone they knew smoked. I can remember being sent to the store to buy the cigarettes. We were so used to the smell that it didn't bother us. Ash trays were everywhere; in the grocery stores, department stores, offices. Now since you don't smell it everywhere else, you notice it more.

Answer 25

My dad smoked in the house and car and etc till i was twelve or so and couldn't stop getting sick from it. Then it got to where I couldn't be around him if he had that on him when i was about 15. turns out I'm very allergic to tobacco and more so to some cigarettes than others.... so yeah he doesn't do it around me unless i'm on my allergy regimen.

Answer 26

My Dad smoked and quit some 40yrs ago..he is 92yo. I smoke also now.... I do not like the smell.

Answer 27

Ex smoker. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I too am an ex smoker, my parents smoked, both brothers and me. I cannot stand the smell now it actually makes me sick to my stomach.

Answer 28

My mother smoked Pal Malls. She was an RN. My dad smoked Chesterfield regulars. Never bothered me. We also used paint with LEAD in it, none of us kids ate a window frame or door jamb. Gas had lead in it.

Answer 29

My dad smoked.....I told my dad recently that he was the reason I never started smoking in the first place. It really grossed me out. I have never smoked and neither does my husband but our grown daughter does smoke. Go figure.

Answer 30

Both parents smoked. I don't. I know being around smoke is bad for me; but, in truth, I don't notice the smell and it doesn't make me cough or anything.

Answer 31

Yes, both parents smoked, though they quit once into their 60's....and No, didn't bother me..had no allergies, asthma or other respiratory ailments either. I suspect cigarettes back then were made with purer tobacco and less chemical additives

Answer 32

Mom did not smoke, dad did but he passed when I was 3 and I don't remember that.

Answer 33

My mom smoked, but not my dad. When all the health warnings came out, she quit. When my dad came in the house, the first thing he did was empty the ashtrays!

Answer 34

Both my parents smoked when I was a kid and I HATED it. None of their remaining 5 children smoke... isn't that odd.

Answer 35

My parents were each two pack a day smokers and it did bug my siblings and me. Our friends were not allowed to come to our house to play because they reeked of smoke when they went home. We didn't notice how bad it smelled because we were so used to it.

Answer 36

Both my parents were heavy smokers. I lived in a cigarette

fug for most of my childhood.

My father died of a smoking related cancer and my mother

dies of heart problems - also smoking related.

I have never smoked, I hate it.

Answer 37

My dad smoked a pipe and cigars, mom didn't.

I tried to smoke a couple times when I was a kid, but choked to death both times.

My kids smoke.

I tried one of theirs a couple weeks ago and same thing, gag, hack, cough, and on and on.

They got a kick out of it.

Answer 38

I remember visiting my father in the hospital and he was smoking in the hospital room and using the urinal for an ashtray.

God almighty.

Answer 39

Neither of my parents smoked. My dad had when he was younger, but by the time my folks got married, he'd quit.

Answer 40

My parents smoked and now i do......



I am a smoker but can't stand the smell, i am constantly changing my clothes! silly i know but i hate the smell

Answer 41

well they say that once you smoke, when you have quit, it is then that you hate the smell of them!

I'm the same now i have quit. I'm not sure why it is but it happens to everyone when they quit.

Answer 42

I don't remember anyone in my whole family being smokers. except for grandfather....he died of oral cancer but I was too young to know him. I smoked off and on until two years ago.

Answer 43

My Dad smoked.

Tobacco smelled different when I was a child.

Answer 44

My dad smoked -- that was in the days when smoking didn't hurt you, so it was pretty much accepted. (PC and folks looking out for YOUR best interest, in spite of yourself,, weren't as prevalent then).

Answer 45

Yes, they both smoked. Sometimes my dad would add a pipe or cigar o the mix. It only bothered me when I got smoke in my eyes from it. I smoke now, so I can' t beof much help to you now on that one.

Answer 46

My dad smoked a pipe, but my mum didn't smoke at all.

Answer 47

OMG! YES......my mama would light a cig at 3 am and it would instantly have me awake......i always hated tobacco...never smoked one because of that.

Answer 48

yes very heavely. i suspect that nicotine was passed into my system making me an addict.i suspect that my children are ,following in my footsteps.i wish i could start over an correct the afful mistake that i have made,

Answer 49

both did but dad gave up when I was very young, he was the one who died from lung cancer 41 years after he stopped

Answer 50

They did for a spell but quit when I was still fairly young.

Answer 51

Yes they did, but they taught me NOT to do it and I'm glad they did!

Answer 52

yes both did

Answer 53

yep

Answer 54

No, but they burned.

Answer 55

No!

Answer 56

nope...