Did anyone else's parents smoke in the house

Forgot to say, I think FIL was very disappointed that DH and his siblings didn’t smoke,
he saw it as a personal attack on his choices. He was (and MIL) in total denial that smoking had any effect on your health at all. He died of lung cancer and MILs lungs were failing at the end.

Yep! We smoked in the house when I was at uni (not a million years ago!) and it seems really mad now to think of it

My grandparents did. DHs stepmother still does - she won’t visit us because we don’t allow smoking in the house - not that anyone else has ever asked to…

My parents smoked at home and in the car. My mum used to smoke while cooking too - she’d stand there stirring food with a cigarette in her mouth… I m sure ash used to drop in…..

Just another contributory factor to me leaving home at 18….

Both parents smoked all the way through our childhood. In the house , in the car. DF stopped when he was around 50 and my dM smoked heaviky up til the day she was taken in to hospital at th age of 80. She was a nuurse and i believe (but could be wrong) she smoked through her pregnacies as well. Family stopped visiting with the kids but she wouldn't stop. ( would never smoke in our homes though).

It was a different time and lots of parents didvit, but as a teacher i knew lots of parents who still smoked inside you can smell it on clothes but especially on reading bags/books. It makes me sad to think we as kids must have stunk, but also my DD we lived at DPs when she was little!

I used to sit at my grandads feet with a tin of golden Virginia and a packet of Rizlas making his roll ups for him. Mad times.

Yes mine too in 1980s and in the car on the way to school. I was born with a congenial heart and lung issue- I had so many chest infections as a child. Which I no longer suffer from since leaving home.

Yes chain smoking parents. Me and my siblings must have stunk to high heaven.

Yes. Everyone did, my parents, grandparents, family friends. In the 70s you were surrounded by smokers. I remember being made to sit on the top deck of the bus so mum could smoke on the half hour trip into town.

Yes and it still winds me up to this day - inflicting that disgusting habit on children who have no choice but to breathe it in. So wrong and selfish.

Oh yes, both of them. Like chimneys. Also in the car. A positive (though unintended) result is that I have never had any desire whatsoever to smoke.

I was born in 1955. My mum chain smoked throughout her pregnancies and while I lived at home. Everyone smoked in the 60s. My dad only smoked a single cigarette on social occasions, and was unusual in that. I was the only one of my friends who didn't smoke when I was in sixth form.

When I see posts on Mumsnet about people refusing to let someone hold their child because they'd smoked a few hours earlier, I wonder how on earth my generation came into being and survived for so long.

Obviously I'm not condoning smoking indoors or anywhere else. But the fear of some old second hand smoke is a little out of hand, and just more worry for parents.

Parents and all 4 grandparents smoked in the house and in the car. And it was a total mystery to them why I'd always get car sick, sitting there in the middle of 4 adults puffing away.

They absolutely did know by that time. But they were addicts. Mine smoked like chimneys, DM died from lung cancer and DF from complications of COPD. He had smoked since the age of 14.
I've never smoked and neither do my kids.

Yes and they knew I didn’t like it, but did it anyway. My father died of an unrelated illness, and my mum is still alive but I worry about her getting lung cancer or dementia because of her old 20 a day habit. I worry about myself too - 1 in 10 people who get lung cancer have never smoked.

My dh's parents both smoked like trains in the house years ago. He said when he went out to.play sports when he returned he had to walk into a cloud of smog. He complained all his clothes stank of smoke and he spent a lot of time out of the house and at his uncles who was a non smoker and after Uni never lived in his childhood home again. He got a flat nearby.

Similar to me too, I absolutely hated it!

And in the office.

I frequently had to wipe the fag ash off the glass on the photocopier to get a non-smudgy copy.

My colleague set fire to her bin a few times. It was a wicker type, so when she chucked her mug of tea in to put the fire out, the tea flowed out the wicker. They gave her a metal bin eventually, mainly because the cleaners complained about the ashy/tea mess on the carpet. No-one batted an eyelid about the bin actually being on fire!

Different times.

Being fat puts you at higher risk of gallstones (and so many other conditions) than using a weight loss injection.

Dunno, I watched I am legend. The epidemic of those injections is twilight zone territory. Curious to see how many people complain of gallstones on here in the next few years me.

They didn't. I remember writing about time in my GCSE's in the mid 90s

I think it’s unfair to lump weight loss injections in with harmful habits. Losing weight is a healthy thing to do and the injections in themselves are not harmful.

Amazed at some of the outraged responses here. It was totallly normal and there's no point going on about it. There are many deadly vices which impact other, smoking is just one of a long list. Psychological damage is not seen but just as harmful.

Wow I worked in a cigarette shop (corner shop) for five years from 1995-2000. No way would we have done that! Must have been a dodgy shop

Yup. And in the car and on planes when we went on holiday. I used to find fag butts floating in the toilet.

My parents kept their packets of fags by the bed. I don’t think they actually smoked IN bed, no idea why they did that.

Funnily enough my Mum in later years point blank denied they had ever smoked in the car. My brother and I were amazed that she tried to gaslight us, thank goodness we had each other to back up the story.

Both gave up maybe around mid nineties (I was a kid in seventies and eighties, so it was after I went to University). Dad died of Leukaemia in 2000, aged only in his fifties. No idea if the smoking was a factor. Mum died of lung cancer in 2013 30 years after her last fag. I worry constantly that it’s a timebomb inside me from the passive smoking. I have asthma.

I loved them both very much though.

My best mate’s Mum smoked extremely heavily, I never saw her without a fag in her hand. The wall around her favourite seat on the living room was yellow. She died of lung cancer in her early forties.

It was all so fucked up.

I grew up surrounded by second hand smoke. In the home, the car, the cinemas in the 60s and 70s. then when older in the 80s, I was breathing it all day in the office and then in my bar maid job. Always hated it. Hopefully it hasn't messed my health up tho I do seem to get chest infections easily.