Smokers – did your parents share cigarettes, cigars or pipes with you when you were a child?
Friday, July 30th, 2010I was wondering how many other people came from families in which smoking was common and accepted for all ages. My parents used to let me light me light their cigarettes and gave me puffs when I was 4 or 5. Sometimes my dad would smoke cigars, and he would pass it to my mom and me and we would help him smoke it.
My husband and I do this now with our girls. We let them smoke cigarettes as soon as they asked, and tonight we have been passing around a big Macanudo. The girls and I are still smoking our cigarettes, but passing the cigar with him too. It is a fun family activity that we all enjoy. And we have never told the girls that most people don’t inhale cigars, so they take big puffs and inhale them like it is no big deal.
Does anyone else do this?
I come from a smoking family, and have been smoking since I was a small child.
Is it abuse to be permissive? REALLY? We don’t force them to smoke!