Did anyone else's parents smoke in the house

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I sort of can't believe they did really. This wasn't years and years ago either, 90s and early 00s. How could they be so selfish?

My grandparents did. In the 90s.

Mine still does, 40 a day habit. Like posters above I had terrible ENT trouble growing up, I was into horses too and my Dad would try and convince everyone I was allergic to the hay 🤣 I still have horses but much less ENT trouble as an adult, I wonder why?

I’m v anti smoking, I couldn’t date someone that smoked. But I don’t blame them, it was just the norm then.

My parents have never smoked, but visitors to the house did, there would be cigarettes in a glass on the table at dinner parties, and my grandfathers and many other relatives smoked in their houses and cars. It was normal in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. People smoked in restaurants and on public transport and I remember a flight with smoking permitted in the seats on one side on the aisle all the way along the plane.

At least one of my DC smokes in her own house.

The dangers of passive smoking were definitely known about in the early/mid 1990s because when Roy Castle (a non-smoker) was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992 there was a load of publicity about it in the media. The tobacco industry was aware in the 1980s but kept the findings secret.

Forgot, we could also buy sweet cigarettes that came in a mock cigarette pack, so we could pretend to sit and smoke them!

Born in the late 80's. My mum didn't smoke but I can only ever recall my dad smoking outside. In the car too. My siblings and I both have asthma - passive smoking related? Who knows. I remember a friend's mum and dad used to smoke like chimneys in the house and the house was rotten; stains everywhere.

As a HCP, almost all the patient's with chronic lung conditions I've met have been previous heavy smokers. I'm also not surprised when I get told that a heavy smoker has been diagnosed with lung cancer. I am so glad there is so much more awareness nowadays with smoking and the affects on health.

What MORTIFIES me, is that when I lived at home after uni for a bit and had professional jobs - I must have absolutely reeked of smoke. What must they have thought?!

Yes, and well past the point when we knew what passive smoking could do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 🤦‍♀️)

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.

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. My dad was the only smoker and he would go in the garden.

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.

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.

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.

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 - 70s, 80s, 90s

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

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.