Do you smoke?

[xdeus]

I just read a post about someone trying to quit smoking and I had been thinking about how many people smoke nowadays as compared to earlier generations. It seems that smoking is on the decline, but I could be jaded by living in California with so many anti-smoking laws. Both of my parents smoked for years and fortunately non of their kids picked up the habit. (I did smoke a cigarette (or puffed a cigarette) once when I was around 8 and asked my mother if I could smoke. Probably the best lesson she could have ever done for me )

BTW, to keep this thread from being locked, I am only referring to tobacco cigarettes.

[Samuel]

I do not.

[DSGB]

Unfortunately yes i do. About a pack a day.

[Wh00h0069]

I smoked for nine years, and quit on the first try close to two years ago. I do not like to be around it now, but I do not get upset if someone smokes around me.

[frankykeno]

I wish I could have answered this one "no" but unfortunately I smoke - much less than I used to but it's an old and hard habit to break. I'm old enough that I was a teen when the Malboro Man was still cool and all the gorgeous Hollywood stars smoked publically. In my home growing up, one parent smoked and out of the 5 kids they raised all of us started smoking young and all of us still smoke to this day.

My husband doesn't smoke and wishes I didn't. Of our 4 kids only the 21 year old smokes (or admits to doing so). So far I haven't seen signs of it with my 17 and 15 year olds and I hope they break the cycle. I've tried so hard as a parent to give them the message that this is an addiction that they just don't want to have to deal with. I won't allow them to touch my cigarettes (none of that "go get mom her smokes" stuff in my house). I honestly tell them this is an addiction and I didn't know better the first time I tried a puff. They are so much better informed as kids than I was back then.

I always feel bad that my addicition may someday take me away from them before my time. Perhaps one day that feeling will be stronger than this awful addiction.

[MarkS]

I smoked for 30 years. I recently had my 7th year anniversary for quitting. I really don't like people to smoke around me that much, but I tolerate it well enough that I don't say anything. Having smoked for so long I know what it's like to be dumped on by some militant anti-smoker and I really don't want to do that to others.

[Jay_Bunny]

I've grown up around smokers. My mom smokes. My dad, stepfather, and my mom's current boyfriend all smoke. My brother smokes on occasion. My 14 year old sister told me she smokes when she can bum a cigarette off her friends, and my husband's friends smoke. (my husband has tried a clove cig, and hookah but does not smoke anything. He has tried those only once and told me he would not smoke hookah unless I was ok with it). Oh and a ton of my friends smoke.

I feel like I'm the only person that doesn't smoke around here. I hate the smell of smoke (I like the smell of cloves though but would prefer not being around cigarettes period), and I think the habit is disgusting. I don't mind if other people smoke as long as they are doing it away from me and they don't offer me one. I have made it a rule in my house that there will be no smoking and my husband respects that.

I actually have dreams about trying a cigarette and I wake up not being able to breathe. So yeah, that is my take on cigarettes. Oh and the smell of a cigar will make me want to puke.

[kabuna]

I smoke cigars but its usually only when we go out drinking. I guess vices just go together.

[xdeus]

I'm old enough to remember how bad public smoking used to be, especially in airplanes, restaurants and movie theaters.

I know public smoking laws are a lot better now so it doesn't really bother me too much if people smoke in open areas if I'm able to get away, but I think I'm a lot less tolerant than I used to be. As a kid I remember having to put up with my parents smoking on long car trips in rainy weather and I couldn't do much but sit there in a smoke filled tin can.

Smoking has been coming up a lot lately with my kids for some reason. We've been watching a lot of older movies like the Alien series and older James Bond movies. It seemed like everyone used to smoke back then...

[ARamos8]

I smoke as well. I'm not allowed, I mean I don't smoke in the house or in the cars. I try to keep that stench far away from the kids. I was just recently attacked by my crumb snatchers to quit. I'm doing it. This weekend... LOL