This is emotional blackmail. There must be laws against this, surely?

[D0oinMeCleanin]

I can have them grounded arrested or something, no?

I got a lovely glitter painting from my DC. It's of a no smoking sign and a dead person .

It has glitter gel pen writing on it.

It reads "Mammy, please stop smoking. It is bad for you. You will die a lot sooner than you normally would. It will make you really poorly. We don't want you to die [insert face with glitter tears]

People who want you to stop
[insert dd1, dd2 and DH's signature]

Me and dd2 and Daddy would want you to quit. It would make us very happy. We love you lots"

This is worse than those awful bloody adverts with the children.

Please tell me I can punish them? This is just wrong. Glitter should not be used this way.

[D0oinMeCleanin]

Their desperate emotional plea probably had as much to do with a desire to paint something with glitter paints instead of sleeping like they were supposed to be as it did their distress of my smoking. Of course they'd rather I didn't smoke, but I very much doubt that they are actually traumatised by it. More likely they've listened to DH and my PT whinge at me for smoking and have run with it.

Also if someone could point out where I said I didn't care and was not going to take on board what they drew, that'd be awesome because I might be having a memory lapse here, but I don't remember posting any such thing, thanks muchly

[expatinscotland]

PMSL @ the Netmumification of MN, all the sanctimonious bosom-heaving. Anyone remember the every-so-often threads about recreational coke use at the weekends with the kids sent to Grandma's so the parents could hoover up lines just a few years back? There would be calls for removal these days. :o

[expatinscotland]

It's a good thing TVnever watched 'Skint'. She'd have a heart attack.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

This thread is hilarious.

So many perfect people.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Aye, children are bothered by all manner of things that are actually inconsequential - monsters under the bed anybody.

I used to be a kid who would weep and wail about smokers. Throw cigarettes in the bin,flush them down the toilet. I wasn't even around smokers that often, my parents certainly didn't smoke.

What am I as an adult? A smoker. Do the health implications still bother me as they did when I was a child? No.

Something will get us all in the end after all.

[expatinscotland]

I'd definitely rather shuffle off this mortal coil than get dementia. Let's face it: for many of us, and more and more of us, living longer is a poisoned chalice.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I agree expat

[exoticfruits]

It isn't perfect people at all- if you know it is proved to be harmful why carry on?

[EliotNess]

I think the op is a bit weird.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Same can be said about drinking alcohol,eating junk food. though exotic

The very process of childbirth can be dangerous - so why do it?

[Fairylea]

Try champix. My mum was able to stop with them after 40 years of 40 a day. Nothing else worked. She hasn't smoked for 6 years now.

I absolutely hated her smoking when I was a child. Even though she smoked outside, my clothes etc all smelt of smoke and I was teased relentlessly about it. So much so as an 8 year old I used to carry my coat to school in a bag so it didn't absorb the smell of the smoke next to me as she walked me to school.

I also became worried about her health and very scared she would get cancer while I was little.

Please give up.

[exoticfruits]

Exactly Alis- why not get heathy? Give up smoking, eat less, exercise more.

[expatinscotland]

They make you try all kinds of things before giving you Champix, which can have very serious side effects.

OP, when you are ready to quit, you will know.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

exotic your solution to childbirth being a threat to ones health is?

I'll quit smoking when I no longer enjoy it and not before.

I would rather live a fun,if unhealthy, life than live a pious boring one.

[expatinscotland]

Why not? Because I have no desire to live for ages and ages, probably getting more and more frail, possibly developing dementia, having to work longer and longer. For what? You STILL die.

[expatinscotland]

Eat less? FUCK that. I can do without smoking and booze, but eat less? So when we're all starving we 20 years from now we can be comforted by what fools we were? Has there ever been a death row inmate who ordered a salad as a last meal? Even Jesus went large.

[TantrumsAndBalloons]

Yes but expat imagine the emotional distress from the poor children watching mum eat a bar of dairy milk.
Or having a glass of wine every night.
Or a cup of coffee in the morning. Caffeine is harmful and addictive isn't it?
Where are the mothers of the poor children who priorities caffeine over their children? The ones who have to have a coffee before they get up, make breakfast etc?

[expatinscotland]

I'm on this fucking gallbladder diet until I get my scan, and it's killing my will to live. Eat less? I.don't.fucking.think.so.

And no, I'm not overweight at all.

[exoticfruits]

The world needs children- it doesn't need smokers.

[expatinscotland]

On the contrary. There are now 7bn people on the planet and the population, growing at the rate it is, will soon be unsustainable - it already is in some places. The world needs fewer children and fewere people living so long. Get real.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

exotic the UK needs the tax revenue gleaned from tobacco sales and imports more than it needs more children.

[expatinscotland]

LOL @ the world needing more children!

[expatinscotland]

The world is definitely in need of more people dying off rather than living longer.