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?

Yup, and the car, and then everyone wondered why I had severe asthma...

I left home in 2009!!! They don't do anymore though.

Yes and the car! Hell.

Yup, born in the 80's and my mum smoked in the house for as long as I can remember, only changing slightly when her first grandchild was born and would then smoke in one room, which he was not allowed to go in. She later moved in to a flat and no longer smoked inside.

Anecdotally - the only time you could guarantee that she would not have a cigarette would be when looking after her grandchildren. She would go all day without if she had to. Shame she couldn't give us the same grace 🤣
I do jest - she knew better, did better.

Sorry to hear that.
I’m a little bit younger than you but my mum, nans, grandads and almost every other adult in the family who came to our home also smoked at least 40 a day. But none of them ever had any type of cancer let alone lung cancer. Apart from my mum , who’s still going strong, all the grandparents lived very long lives. So random. In fact, my dad, the only non smoker, was the only one to die relatively young. All but one gave up smoking but not til they were already quite old. A couple of them were heavy drinkers too, they lived in to their nineties 🤷‍♀️. I’ve never smoked myself, but I do extremely bad asthma and have had for about twenty years now. No idea if that’s connected.

Yeah loads. When they had their mates over I used to go and stick my head out of the window on the landing every now and then.

I refused to have smoking in the house when I got my own place. My mother rang me up when I was away to tell me she was smoking in the house. When she visited she would constantly try and light up.

It's a selfish I agreem

I don't know how long ago you're talking, but chances are probably plenty of your colleagues smoked or were around people who did. So they either wouldn't have noticed or would have thought nothing of it.

I'm in a professional job now and smoke. When I last worked in an office (wfh now) in 2018, there were still a small number of colleagues who also smoked. Not many granted, but it's not like it's disappeared completely. As for what anyone thinks, well that's up to them! People judge other people for all sorts of reasons. I'm not going to give it any head space.

My dad too.
In the house
Out the house
In the car
In the pub
It was different bsck then.

Not my mum and dad, but I remember kids coming to school stinking of cigarettes. Sounds awful now, but typical back then.

People can smell damp now though, which is equally harmful. Nobody seems to give a shit about overcrowding and poor quality housing, or about UPFs, which my parents sometime gave me a lot of (and at times my own kids for treats, which I am trying to sort out)

Yes mine did, and I hated it even then. I hated the fact that my hair and clothes always smelt of smoke. I once went on a sleepover at a friends and took my bedding, and I was absolutely mortified when my friend mentioned that my bedding smelt of cigarette smoke. I remember pleading with them to smoke in the garden.
On the plus side, I should thank them for the fact that it means I’ve never so much as tried a cigarette in my 40 years because the smell bothered me so much.

Yes, we all had those (they tasted awful - just sweet nothingness). Then they took the red off the end and called them candy sticks 😂

Yes, mine did. Virtually constantly. I was born in 1966, so I was growing up with it from then until the mid eighties when I left home. My mother even smoked throughout her pregnancies!

My Dad was a pipe smoker and my mother was a 40+ a day cigarette smoker. Windows in the house were rarely open and everything was nicotine and tar stained. They also smoked in the car, usually without opening the window in that either. 😲😠 Very much of the "our house/car so we'll do what we like" persuasion. Yes, much as I have always loved my parents, it was very selfish. My sister and I had no choice but to live with it.

My mother (now 89 and my only surviving parent) smoked right up until a bout of pneumonia almost killed her about two years ago. Now she vapes like mad and has daily nicotine patches.

My mother's house is now sooo much better to spend time in. Vapes may still be controversial, but this is about as far from cigarettes as we are ever likely to get her. I'll take her vaping any day over the thick cloud of smoke that always surrounded her.

It's shocking what they used to get away with. I don't miss that.

Same. Well my dad, not my mum.

my dad is the kindest and most unselfish individual anyone could ever come across. I suppose this is the power of addiction huh. My mum was also meticulous about having a clean house and while I don’t recall our house smelling I guess it must have.

He stopped smoking before we had kids which I am relieved about as there’s no way I’d have tolerated it around them.

Oh yes, and the moaning that the ceiling kept turning yellow "because they were too low' it wasn't until I had my own house with equally low ceilings I figured out the truth.

I was born in the early 1960s.

Almost every adult smoked much of the time and wherever they wished, only some shops seemed to ban it.

Smoking on public transport, my mother used to get the long bus route into town as it meant she could have 2 cigarettes on it. I used to sit next to her and hold my breath as much as I could.

The idea they might smoke outside for my feelings wouldn't have entered their heads.

Their world seemed to revolve around tobacco and they both died early from it, as did many of my relatives.

Probably did me good in the long run, never smoked one cigarette.

Exactly

Both my parents were chain smokers and they smoked in every room of the house,car also.
Most visitors smoked too...from early 70s

I couldn't do much visiting when I left home and had a baby

Yes, both parents, but this was the 1970s and I don't think the damage done by passive smoking was widely known about then. My mum smoked and drank (though not heavily in either case) through pregnancy too. My dad smoked a pipe and once in a while (though rarely nowadays) I'll catch a whiff of pipe tobacco in a public place and feel all nostalgic. I don't remember the smoke ever being obnoxious, though it undoubtedly affected our respiratory health and I don't like the smell of smoke in public or on people now. I hate the smell of dope smoke worse though and that seems to be bloody everywhere, so I don't think much progrss has been made tbh.

My mum smoked while she was pregnant with me and throughout my childhood they both smoked constantly in the house and car. I always thought no harm done but recently have thought differently. I've realised that any time I get a cough or cold, I am ill for absolutely ages. This has always been the case. I always get really ill with respiratory viruses and take ages to get better. I was also absolutely terrible at pe as a child despite being a thin child who did all the usual swimming /ballet etc. I struggled hugely to keep up with the other kids when we were running round the playground. I'm convinced my lung capacity is poor because of all the passive smoking

Really? She must have been on very good terms with the shopkeeper then because there were definitely strict rules about age limits around and had been for a long time. We're talking 2006 or 2007 so not the dark ages. I was born in the 80s and never heard of anyone being asked to buy fags for their parents because I'd assume they wouldn't be allowed to as too young.

Yes, 80's and 90's until long after I moved out. If you live in it you don't notice the smell, I didn't realise until I moved away for University and noticed the smell had permeated into all my fabrics/suitcase/duvet!

My mother smoked although I had asthma. This was the 60s onwards. Sure it didn’t help my condition.

Yes. 1980s. House and car. It made me feel sick all the time but in a way I'm grateful as it put me off smoking for life. I've never been tempted to have even so much as a single puff. Revolting habit (they both gave up by the time my youngest sibling was 5).

1970s and 1980s.

Both chain smokers in house and car. And, for about the first 5 years of my job, everyone chain smoked in the office too. Luckily, I never did.

Wonder how many I have passively smoked ….

Born in the 60s to 2 ardent smokers. Everyone did it, all the time in homes, cars and even inside planes, at the back. I have to say that it didn't affect me in any way that I know of, and that because everyone did it, no one really noticed the smell either. Now, of course, I'm much more sensitive to smoke smells and hate them.

My dad was a heavy smoker. As kids we didn’t think anything of it ((1970s)