Smoking

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Years ago everyone used to smoke around their kids. I don't understand why they weren't aware of the dangers and how bad it was breathing it in. I remember being one of those children at the time covering my mouth. Surely it isn't just me?

It's called progress. Children were sent to work in mines and fields years ago also.

Yes true I suppose but still

When my nana started smoking she was told it was good for you. It reduced stress.

Things move on. There was a time that smoking was knwon to be bad for the smoker, but the impact on those around the smoker was unknown.

I don't understand.

The adverts many years ago for cigarettes said how beneficial they were. I'm sure I saw an advert for opium-based products being good for you, too, once.

Science evolves and our understanding evolves. We know now that babies shouldn't be put to sleep on their tummies; fifty years ago they all were because that was the advice. Progress.

That's just it to me it's obvious and it was then as a little girl I knew that breathing in that smoke wasn't good for me!

I don't understand why they weren't aware of the dangers and how bad it was breathing it in.
Because the dangers weren't widely known about. I seem to remember it was when Roy Castle got ill with lung cancer it all came out and was publicised.

My nana was pg and had bad morning sickness. she went to her gp for thalidomide as had heard it would help and was classified safe for pregnant women.

Her gp refused as he wasnr convinced it was safe. Turns out it wasnt.

In 50 years people will be shocked at something we do now, that we dont really think about as being bad.

Thats how progression works.

Ignorance I guess. My parents smoked but I doubt they'd have understood about second hand smoke.

Even when it all started coming out about the dangers people would have been in denial, saying that it never did them any harm.

Smoking was very popular years ago. My dad even remembers his teacher smoking at his desk. You could smoke in public places, even on the bus.

I imagine that there's things we do now that our children and grandchildren will look back and be horrified at.

That's just it to me it's obvious

Would you like a round of applause?

I remember covering my mouth and turning my face away from my mum when she smoked when I was little but it wasn't because I "knew" it was dangerous back then but because it bloody stank and I didn't like breathing in smoke.

Things change. Depression used to be treated with electric shocks, gay men were "treated" with electric shocks to stop them being gay .

Soldiers used to be partly paid in cigarettes before the dangers were known.

When my mum was pregnant with me the doctor told her to cut down smoking from 30 a day to 10 because stopping completely would be harmful to me. Now we know that it's best to completely stop smoking.

You were probably covering your mouth for the same reason as me - it's horrible breathing in cigarette smoke - rather than you knowing it was dangerous.

When my grandad was in the army during WW2 he was told to smoke (I think it stopped them being hungry).

It is interesting to wonder what we do now that people of the future will find shocking!

This is the third smoking thread I have seen in two days, is it let's feel superior because we don't smoke and brag about it on the internet week?

I take everyone's point I just thought that surely when you breathe in smoke it smells nasty, makes you cough, surely that would ring some sort of alarm bells but maybe that's just my thinking. I certainly don't mean to come across as smug.