Did anyone else's parents smoke in the house

Yes mine did, and I hated it even then. I hated the fact that my hair and clothes always smelt of smoke. I once went on a sleepover at a friends and took my bedding, and I was absolutely mortified when my friend mentioned that my bedding smelt of cigarette smoke. I remember pleading with them to smoke in the garden.
On the plus side, I should thank them for the fact that it means I’ve never so much as tried a cigarette in my 40 years because the smell bothered me so much.

Not my mum and dad, but I remember kids coming to school stinking of cigarettes. Sounds awful now, but typical back then.

People can smell damp now though, which is equally harmful. Nobody seems to give a shit about overcrowding and poor quality housing, or about UPFs, which my parents sometime gave me a lot of (and at times my own kids for treats, which I am trying to sort out)

My dad too.
In the house
Out the house
In the car
In the pub
It was different bsck then.

I don't know how long ago you're talking, but chances are probably plenty of your colleagues smoked or were around people who did. So they either wouldn't have noticed or would have thought nothing of it.

I'm in a professional job now and smoke. When I last worked in an office (wfh now) in 2018, there were still a small number of colleagues who also smoked. Not many granted, but it's not like it's disappeared completely. As for what anyone thinks, well that's up to them! People judge other people for all sorts of reasons. I'm not going to give it any head space.

Yeah loads. When they had their mates over I used to go and stick my head out of the window on the landing every now and then.

I refused to have smoking in the house when I got my own place. My mother rang me up when I was away to tell me she was smoking in the house. When she visited she would constantly try and light up.

It's a selfish I agreem

Sorry to hear that.
I’m a little bit younger than you but my mum, nans, grandads and almost every other adult in the family who came to our home also smoked at least 40 a day. But none of them ever had any type of cancer let alone lung cancer. Apart from my mum , who’s still going strong, all the grandparents lived very long lives. So random. In fact, my dad, the only non smoker, was the only one to die relatively young. All but one gave up smoking but not til they were already quite old. A couple of them were heavy drinkers too, they lived in to their nineties 🤷‍♀️. I’ve never smoked myself, but I do extremely bad asthma and have had for about twenty years now. No idea if that’s connected.

Yup, born in the 80's and my mum smoked in the house for as long as I can remember, only changing slightly when her first grandchild was born and would then smoke in one room, which he was not allowed to go in. She later moved in to a flat and no longer smoked inside.

Anecdotally - the only time you could guarantee that she would not have a cigarette would be when looking after her grandchildren. She would go all day without if she had to. Shame she couldn't give us the same grace 🤣
I do jest - she knew better, did better.

Yes and the car! Hell.

Yup, and the car, and then everyone wondered why I had severe asthma...

I left home in 2009!!! They don't do anymore though.

Yes, I was born in 1980 and everyone in my large extended family smoked at home and at each others houses. It was completely normal.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the teachers at school also used to smoke indoors, I can remember my headteacher smoking in his office and smoking in the staff room. Also smoking in hospital wards too.

Yes - 70s, 80s, 90s

Times change. I wouldn't get bend out of shape about it.

My parents did in the 60s and 70s, it was very normal then. Dad on his 20 a day, and mum with her one cigarette after dinner.

Dad gave up smoking at 45, which I'm sure is the main reason he's still here at 90.

Yes my m did and I hated it, I always used to complain it irritated and hurt my eyes making them run. She would light up between courses of a meal too. Hated it the smell everything. Despite smoking fifty years and my dad passively, neither of them got lung cancer.

He also used to frequently drink drive us three DD home in the car.

Yes, DF, in the 70's and early/mid 80's. Also in the car. Totally normal then though - you could smoke in most indoor spaces. He died in 1987 (not smoking related), so I don't know how long it would of gone on for.

Second hand smoke was known about in the 90s, though perhaps it wasn't acknowledged just how harmful it was. My students union banned smoking in about 2005, before the national ban.

My dad smoked for most of my childhood. From memory, he would usually go outside/stand in the back doorway if we were around, but he did smoke in the living room after we'd gone to bed. He stopped doing that when I complained that I'd been accused of smoking at school (y7/8?) because my uniform had been drying in the same room.

No. My dad was the only smoker and he would go in the garden.

I still come across it quite a lot now (my work takes me into a lot of houses). Even where there are small children. It's not as common as it was years ago, but it's still going on.

No, but my grandparents and great-uncle, with whom we shared the house were all heavy smokers. And no one ever appears to have linked it to my childhood asthma. I don't think my parents would ever have dreamed of asking them to stop even if our GP had said so.

Yeah, my dad and grandparents. They had a specific room they had to go to though and we kids weren't allowed in there when they were smoking (I used to sneak in anyway as I loved the smell of my grandpa's pipe tobacco 🤦‍♀️)

I think it was very normal.

I am very fortunate that I grew up knowing very, very few people that smoked but my friends who had smokers for parents - it was always in the home. I’m sure my parents would have known which friend I was visiting by what I smelt like coming home.

When I started going to the pub they were completely smoke filled and you’d have to air out your coat for a few days in the garden. I think we forget how bloody weird it was suddenly when the smoking ban came in and pubs and social clubs suddenly stopped smelling like that.

Not my parents, but my maternal grandmother and my mum's husbands mother both smoked like chimneys. So did my mum's brothers and her husbands sister. They all smoked in their own homes, in our home, in the car and just about everywhere else. I used to stay with my grandparents on saturday nights and I always remember when my nan would take me to have a wash the flannel and the soap always smelled strongly of stale smoke.

For years I thought my mum didn't smoke, turned out she'd been smoking in secret for years and didn't want us to know about it or see her doing it. So I think it's really weird that she was perfectly happy for us to spend so much time being looked after by people who smoked constantly!

My mum did, with the windows closed too! Sadly she passed away just over a year ago from flu which was worsened by COPD which had worsened to the point at which she was about to go on oxygen before she got sick.
I stupidly started smoking myself at the age of 14-35 which I absolutely do not blame on anyone but myself but the statistics of smokers whose parents were also smokers are quite telling. I've been cigarette free for 10 years now but can't help worrying about the effect it has had on me as a smoker and a passive smoker from birth.

No but my grandparents did. With us kids around. Smoking at all family gatherings. Sometimes someone would open a window. This was the 90s. I have a cousin who is 15 years younger and things had definitely shifted by the early 2000s - no one smoked around him.

My DS4 doesn't even know what a cigarette is. I think I was fetching ashtrays and Silk Cut from nan's handbag.

I was born 1970 and all the adults smoked in doors although they'd make little hand gestures to waft it away. On a Saturday everyone watching telly in the front room it would be a visible rug. Mine and my little brothers eyes would sting and we'd be coughing. So obviously affected. And our clothes etc stank.

It's not judgemental. They knew it wasn't good for infants to breathe in all that smoke. Totally selfish.

I was born late 80s and my mum and step dad smoked in the house (and the car, that was the worst) dirty ashtrays everywhere, I hated it.

She started going outside in the early 2000s.