Did anyone else's parents smoke in the house

Yes it was common then to do so - I gave up smoking in the late 90s, DP didn’t though so made him smoke in kitchen or outside until he eventually gave up too

Yes!
Smoking was permitted in 1970s, in cinemas, theatres, upstairs on buses, trains, aircraft (there were ashtrays in the armrests of the seats ) pubs, restaurants and cafes, and in the workplace. The staff room at school and the school office were both full of smoke and ashtrays overflowing with cigarette butts. It was quite unusual for people not to smoke.
Our living room was a constant fog of smoke, we had an ashtray on a stand and an ornate “table lighter” on the mantelpiece for everyone’s convenience. My parents, grandparents and all their friends smoked cigarettes - with the exception of one uncle who smoked a pipe. The worst was being in the car, the windows up and 4 people smoking.

That’s exactly why I don’t let my children have phones/social media. There is already plenty of research to show how harmful it is to children.

Both my parents smoked all through my 70's and 80's childhood - 20 years of passive smoking. I have never so much as tried one, ever, due to that, I hated it. Their friends would come round and there's be 4 or 6 of them smoking! I used to hate going to pubs, clubs, parties, weddings etc. where everyone would be smoking. Their house was disgusting when we sold it, DH and I had to wash the nicotine off the walls and cupboards before painting.

Horse shit that it doesn't deserve judgement.

No, my brothers nor I knew any different from we grew up breathing in but my ex step wanker did. By then it was well known how harmful it was. He did it because he could, not because he didn't know it was harmful (late eighties /nineties). He didn't care and he couldn't be arsed to go outside.

In the house. On the bus. In the shopping centre. Back in the day it wasn't a problem, only a low functioning regressive thinker doesn't understand that what's classed as acceptable changes over time.

Disgusting. Shouldn't be allowed.

Yep. Both my mum and step dad chain smoked all day long all my life. This was 90s/00s. In the house, in the car, in restaurants. When I got a bit older I had a few comments from friends that I stunk of smoke (couldn’t smell it on myself) and from then on I was so paranoid about it I spent as little time as possible at home as I loathed being sat in the thick black cloud of smoke.

Also, we were really poor, my mum didn’t work and my dad was a taxi driver so there wasn’t ever any spare money for nice things, but plenty of money for 40 a day. Occasionally they’d promise to quit and we’d go on holiday or a day or something with the money they’d saved but they never stuck to it.

I also remember sitting in a science lesson as a child about the effects of smoking on the lungs and the risk of cancers etc and living in constant fear of my mum getting ill. Once I stole all the cigarettes in the house and chopped them up with kitchen scissors… that did not go down well.

No thank goodness.
I hope nobody does it in the car or the house with children today.

I have visited people dying of lung cancer at home and they are still smoking in front of their kids/ grandkids . But at least it’s not people smoking on an actual hospital ward like I had at the start of my career!

Yes that was my experience. I remember my dad going to ku too. To watch tell as he wanted to watch something different to the rest of us and I begged him not to smoke in my room, the one place I had that wasn’t utterly stinking. He sat and smoked in there, one fag after another and I was roared at that it was his fucking house!

Yes! They chainsmoked 40+ a day each, everything was yellow and stunk of smoke. We never had any money. I had a hole in my shoes, that I had for 2 years and my mum shouted at me because she couldn’t afford a new pair. If they stopped smoking for 1 week I could have had shoes that didn’t let in and a proper coat. I still feel angry that it took my being in my 20’s before I could buy decent footwear and not spend the winter with wet feet. I now spend decent money on clothes like coats and shoes.

DHs parents and family were all heavy smokers. Coming into the 90s a lot of them gave up, including his mum.
His dad continued though. They were obsessed with no opening windows and I got ill so many times after staying at theirs, only years later did DH agree it was the smoking. His dad was incredibly rude about it and purposely smoked next to you. There were also numerous rows about him trying to smoke in our house because it ‘didn’t even smell’. It killed him in the end.

Exactly

Yes my stepF, now ex stepF thankfully, didn't give a shit. He smoked in the house and worse, in the car and we weren't allowed to open the windows as the air annoyed him. Bastard. Not sorry he had a heart attack in his fifties.

Friends of mine have always smoked in the house. They're very well off but clearly have no class and have smoked indoors before their child was born and still do now 16 years later.

This. 'Can you believe my parents let me have a phone that fucked up my brain chemistry? How selfish!' Etc.

My Dad did. House and us used to stink of stale smoke.

He was a lovely man but smoking was his one selfish thing. He even smoked in the car on the way to take me to an urgent hospital appointment when I had a throat thing and could barely breathe. He just didn't consider anyone else re the smoking.

He died of lung cancer 20 years ago.

Yes and other kids would comment on how strong my uniform would smell when I was in junior school, very embarassing. My grandparents smoked like chimneys in the house too and the smell of a smoky house reminds me of them which is a bit sad. Sitting in the back of a car with someone smoking in the front you'd get ash landing on you. Even back then we knew it was full of poison and gives you cancer, there isn't really an excuse other than laziness at not wanting to stand outside

My mam did, and all my dad's side did growing up in the 80s/90s.

DM still did in her rented flat, although she kept it to the kitchen. After she passed away we cleaned the place up, the kitchen being the worst part to clean.

My dad still does, although only when it's just him. If we visit he'll stand at his door. Not that it matters, clothes etc still stink after we've been round.

My Grandad's funeral, mid 90s, they had the wake in his local afterwards. I was 13 so tucked away in the corner. I remember standing up to go to the toilet and my head went up into a cloud of smoke that was hanging in the air across the whole room. Smoking didn't carry the same stigma it does now.

Yep it was very standard then. I didn't like it either.

But no point in dwelling on this now, better to focus on making life better in the here and now

Yes. It was bloody horrible. I developed asthma.

Yes and in the car. I was born in 1988. The smoking ban only came in around 2007. I remember going to a Harvester type pub for dinner where they asked my parents (with 4 children in tow) whether they wanted to be seated in the smoking or non smoking area.

When my sister had the first grandchild in 2010, my Dad stopped smoking in the house without being asked too. It's funny how quickly it changed.

Yes, I would say the same about parents who feed their kids large amounts of junk food.
The reason I am still annoyed at my parents about it all these years on is that they knew I hated it, they knew the smell make me gag, they saw me coughing and spluttering while they smoked next to me, and I begged them to smoke outside or stick to one room so I could avoid it, and they didn’t do anything to make our home environment slightly more pleasant for me.

Of course they all amoked in the house! All the adults in my life in the 50s, 60s & 70s smoked. Even worse, they'd light up as soon as they got in the car and the smell of smoke and leather makes me feel sick to this day