To ask how many of you smoke?

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It seems, having read previous threads that smoking was wrong.

I know smoking is bad for your health as does a majority of the other smokers.

I have a 1YO and I smoke outside a couple of times a day and all my family smoke.

I wonder how many other mums are not admitting to having a cheeky fag now and then.

Is it really wrong to do so or am I not seeing the point here?

Oh we used to spend our lunch money before school on a pack of 10. sell 5 of them for a pound at first break, 50p to friends and back down the shop for a 20pack to do iut again. If we were lucky we would make enough to get a quarter bottle of vodka and a 3L white lightning.

Never smoked other than a few puffs to see what it was like. It's probably the one thing that makes my insanely disgusted/ angry - whatever. I can't control the way I feel about it. My smoker mum died quite young of lung cancer. It wasn't pretty for her of those of us who were nursing her to the end.

Do drink though, probably too much.

Breast cancer is very definitely runs in families. I had a mammogram recently and was asked if any women on my mother's side of the family had ever had it. The answer was no and I was told by the radiographer that that therefore officially puts me at "low risk".

But (I think I am correct in saying) smoking is not particularly a cause of breast cancer. You are more likely to die of heart disease or lung cancer.

I smoke, I enjoy it and have no intention of giving up at the moment.

I think we have (finally) decided that DCs are not for us mn has put me off so I don't really see the point in quitting. If we did ever TTC, then I would of course at least stop while pg and would probably make an effort to stop permanently.

I have stopped for periods years long and really, really missed it. Frankly, I will take the health risks over a wistful lifetime of wishing I did smoke.

That said, I am very careful not to smoke near DCs and not even in sight of any friends/family/neighbour DCs.

Smoking increases the risk of all cancers, breast cancer included.

Sorry, that was to Mintyy

I don't think DS1 (13) would dare to start smoking. He knows what happened to his Grandparents, and he hates the smell of cigarettes.

He wouldn't be able to afford it on his pocket money either.

I said "not particularly" Cackle.

It is a ridiculous price now which is one of the main reasons I don't have them often.

You will never stop with any success if you think it involves years of wistfully wishing you could smoke. It shouldn't work like that.

On a thread yesterday they said £7 a packet is that about right?

That was to Cackle

Yep roughly.

I buy a pack of 10 for £3.50 and thats a cheaper one!

sparkling when I was 13 you could buy 10 fags for 88p.
Couldn't afford to do it now

Wow that is £££££.

I think when I was young you could buy them individually

I started at 12. 10 no. 6 for 10p from a machine outside a greengrocers on the way to the youth club fgs!

Sorry mintyy I'm not sure I follow

Smoking does particularly increase your risk of developing breast cancer, as it does all cancers. As it does heart disease.

You are more likely to get breast cancer due to your genes.

You are more likely to get other cancers due to smoking.

Unless I'm getting confused, there is no link between breast cancer and smoking. But that's from a lecture about 5 years ago so things might have changed

I smoke a bit. A couple each day maybe. Always outside, after the DCs go to bed and before I have a shower. DP the same.

It's my personal choice.

Would never smoke around other people's DCs either.

Percentage of population who smoke

In Britain in 1948, when surveys of smoking began, smoking was extremely prevalent among men: 82% smoked some form of tobacco and 65% were cigarette smokers. By 1970, the percentage of male cigarette smokers had fallen to 55%. From the 1970s onwards, smoking prevalence fell rapidly until the mid-1990s. Since then the rate has continued to fall slowly and in 2007 around a fifth (22%) of men (aged 16 and over) were reported as cigarette smokers. Between 2007 and 2009, the rate remained stable, and fell to 21% in 2010 (Figure 6.1). 9,10 Trends in lung cancer incidence rates (shown here from 1975 onwards) reflect the trends in smoking prevalence in past years.

Figure 6.1: Smoking Prevalence and Lung Cancer Incidence, by Sex, Great Britain, 1948-2010

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Smoking has never been a majority habit among women and the percentage of female smokers remained remarkably constant between 1948 and 1970 (41% in 1948 and 44% in 1970). By 2007, the percentage of women who smoke had decreased to around 20%, and has stayed around this level since then. Between 1974 and 2007, smoking prevalence was significantly higher in men than women, but in 2008 and 2010, the difference between the sexes was not statistically significant (Figure 6.1).8,10 The latest statistics show that in 2010 around 10 million adults in Britain smoked cigarettes. 11

Recent research suggests that self-reported cigarette smoking rates may underestimate true tobacco smoking prevalence by 2.8% in England. 12

I smoke a few rollies at the weekend, outside after the DCs are in bed. I'm always trying to quit completely because it makes me feel like a scrote but I do enjoy them dammit!

What does stagger me though is that my Mum taught me to smoke. She caught me having a crafty fag in angst after being dumped at 16, told me I wasn't doing it right, taught me to take the smoke back into my lungs then bought me 10 John Player Special. At the time I thought it slightly strange but now, well really, what can I say?

You will never stop with any success if you think it involves years of wistfully wishing you could smoke. It shouldn't work like that.

I know - that's why I keep starting again

I do understand the whole Paul McKenna philosophy that smoking in itself is not a benefit in and of itself, merely an obviation of a disbenefit.

I disagree, I enjoy smoking and miss it even years after cravings etc have subsided.

Everyone's different though, and I am what you would term a considerate smoker

Ok, according to CR-UK the jury's out on breast cancer

linky here

if you look at the data of b cancer sufferers in japan and spain vs uk and northern europe, you would be amazed. the difference is dairy consumption. Similarly protein consumption is linked to prostrate cancer - it´s incredibly rare in Japan yet endemic in the states even if you adjust for population factors. And, I might add - the Japanese and Spanish smoke far more fags that nothern europeans. Not an apologia for fags or smoking but there are other factors at play.