Aibu to think that an 11 yo smoking is wrong

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This child is 11 years old and has hold of roll up tobacco and smokes them in the street with older sibling. It,s wrong to be doing this at such a young age and where did they get them from. Aibu to be worried about the health aspects for such a young child?

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Trouble is, parents mainly have no clue that their child smokes. I started at 12, my mum only found out a month before my 16th and I told her I had only just recently started. She barely said anything about it, given how my 16th was around the corner and 16 was the legal age to smoke at the time.

I used to get away with it by hiding my fags up the street in a bush, carried chewing gum around with me, and body spray. I used to walk in and go straight to the loo, claiming I was desperate for a wee, then washed my hands and quickly brushed my teeth. I used to travel with mates on the bus here and there, and on one particular bus at the time, you could smoke on so if I stunk of fags, my mum thought it was from passive smoking. My mum seriously had no idea at all, so don't automatically think that other parents know their children smoke because it is more likely that they don't know about it.

What happened there sorry

Anyway

Girl I met at FE college told me in these words "my dad started giving me rollies when I was ten" - think that was the first time I hoiked up my judgy pants at the tender age of 18.

(context for the conversation was that she was trying to give up)

I thought smoking was going out of fashion among the young folk?

Incidentally, my sister started at 13. I used to snitch like mad.

She's 30 and is still trying to give up.

ds started smoking when he was 12.

I was furious (when I eventually found out), but that didn't stop him.

And one of my friends still won't tell her mum that she smokes!

At 11 we were bombarded with anti smoking messages at school, which worked for a few years, until I was 15 and started trying the odd one at parties.

By the time I started university, I was still trying the odd one socially, then in first year I started to smoke in the daytime for a short period. Just because I could and my housemates were smokers. I never got beyond it making me ill though - would get loads of sore throats & colds, and cigarettes always made my throat sore immediately. Also I was attempting to do aerobics classes and it definitely made them harder. So I stopped, even social smoking. Then the next time I fancied a cigarette when really pissed - two years later- I ran to the toilet and threw up immediately. So that was it. I had a good go! Luckily my body was more sensible than my head was and always rejected it :)

I agree FML teens are devious if they don't want you to know you won't.

FreddieFrog - why on earth would the SW slap your wrists :-0