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?

🥳🥳I often think this with these mn questions

Mine did and my brother and sister for that matter. Not in the bedroom though. This was in the 70s, 80a and 90s. Different times. I don't blame or judge them for it.
Ironically my parents gave up when their first grandchild was born.
I have never smoked and nor has DH
MIL still smokes but I won't let her smoke in the house and we rarely go to her house as neither me or the kids like the smell.

Yes and now she’s died of lung cancer so I think she paid the price for that selfishness.

Yes mine did and in the car BUT the window was cracked open (idiots).
I had tonnes of ear infections and illnesses during my kiddie years and I'm sure it was down to second hand smoke. They stopped smoking in the house and hiding thay they smoked when I started nicking their smokes aged 14. That was back in the early 00s.

They now smoke outside but my dad built an outdoor building for them to go into to smoke.

I eventually quit smoking in the last couple of years and I do 100% blame them as part of the influences to smoke that I had around me.

Of course they did. It was common. People smoked everywhere. The hysteria over it nowadays is akin to looking back at Victorians who gave their babies gin and laudanum to quiet them down.

However, I'm pretty sure in years to come people of the future will look back at this generation of parents/children and be horrified at the amount of sugar they were allowed. The amount of fizzy drinks, fast food, Ultra processed shit. The obesity crisis that we pretend isn't happening. People in the 1970s smoked - but they were also much thinner than we are today. In the 1970s we got 10p on a Friday to buy sweets with. And that was it.

Future generations will probably be horrified at the smart phones children of today were allowed. The toddlers on iPads gazing at Peppa Pig in restaurants because no one could possibly expect a child to be without a screen whilst they were actually eating. The hardcore porn that pubescents and pre-pubescents managed to access without their parents' knowledge. The gaming addiction - the hours spent on Fortnite, or Call of Duty. The bullying, the mental health crisis that we perpetuated by giving them social media, TikTok, Snapchat. The paedophiles they were unknowingly exposed to. The dick pics that popped up on 12 year old girls phones. I've worked in safeguarding and it would horrify a lot of people who have no idea what their children are actually viewing.

The Andrew Tates who are influencing boys. The pro-anorexic sites that are influencing girls. The normalising of fillers, botox, veneers, surgery - because you are only worth it if you are pretty. The gambling sites, the easy credit card debt. The weight loss injections. The vaping. The desperation to have holidays and Instagram worthy houses, even though you aren't a celebrity and you can't afford it.

Spending time with grandad who had a Park Drive fag hanging out of his mouth was a lot less damaging than a lot of modern life.

My parents did, until the 2000s, all day and night. It was disgusting. They had no willpower. I used to beg them to quit.

My granddad on my mums side was an outlier in the 70s and 80s in that he always went outside to smoke. The granddad on the other side chain smoked in the house. Loads of my friend's parents smoked on their houses when I was growing up, it was completely normal.
My MIL, FIL and a few other family members smoked on their house when I first got together with DH. Gradually most of them gave up, but there were still a couple that persisted after I had my first DC. I refused to go around there unless they went outside so that was the final death knell of smoking indoors for the family (mine was not the first GC, the others had just accepted it).

And on planes! Aircraft full of smoke not to mention fire hazard! Unbelievable….almost.

My dad always smoked in the house and car. I was born in the late 1950s and he had been smoking long before I came along. My husband and I both smoked in the house, car, and office until we stopped in our mid 30s. I can still remember the lovely fug when you went upstairs on the bus to have a cigarette, and also rushing to get a smoking seat on a plane. It was completely normal and accepted until around the 1990s.

I grew up surrounded by second hand smoke. In the home, the car, the cinemas in the 60s and 70s. then when older in the 80s, I was breathing it all day in the office and then in my bar maid job. Always hated it. Hopefully it hasn't messed my health up tho I do seem to get chest infections easily.

Yup. And in the car and on planes when we went on holiday. I used to find fag butts floating in the toilet.

My parents kept their packets of fags by the bed. I don’t think they actually smoked IN bed, no idea why they did that.

Funnily enough my Mum in later years point blank denied they had ever smoked in the car. My brother and I were amazed that she tried to gaslight us, thank goodness we had each other to back up the story.

Both gave up maybe around mid nineties (I was a kid in seventies and eighties, so it was after I went to University). Dad died of Leukaemia in 2000, aged only in his fifties. No idea if the smoking was a factor. Mum died of lung cancer in 2013 30 years after her last fag. I worry constantly that it’s a timebomb inside me from the passive smoking. I have asthma.

I loved them both very much though.

My best mate’s Mum smoked extremely heavily, I never saw her without a fag in her hand. The wall around her favourite seat on the living room was yellow. She died of lung cancer in her early forties.

It was all so fucked up.

Wow I worked in a cigarette shop (corner shop) for five years from 1995-2000. No way would we have done that! Must have been a dodgy shop

Amazed at some of the outraged responses here. It was totallly normal and there's no point going on about it. There are many deadly vices which impact other, smoking is just one of a long list. Psychological damage is not seen but just as harmful.

I think it’s unfair to lump weight loss injections in with harmful habits. Losing weight is a healthy thing to do and the injections in themselves are not harmful.

They didn't. I remember writing about time in my GCSE's in the mid 90s

Dunno, I watched I am legend. The epidemic of those injections is twilight zone territory. Curious to see how many people complain of gallstones on here in the next few years me.

Being fat puts you at higher risk of gallstones (and so many other conditions) than using a weight loss injection.

And in the office.

I frequently had to wipe the fag ash off the glass on the photocopier to get a non-smudgy copy.

My colleague set fire to her bin a few times. It was a wicker type, so when she chucked her mug of tea in to put the fire out, the tea flowed out the wicker. They gave her a metal bin eventually, mainly because the cleaners complained about the ashy/tea mess on the carpet. No-one batted an eyelid about the bin actually being on fire!

Different times.

Similar to me too, I absolutely hated it!

My dh's parents both smoked like trains in the house years ago. He said when he went out to.play sports when he returned he had to walk into a cloud of smog. He complained all his clothes stank of smoke and he spent a lot of time out of the house and at his uncles who was a non smoker and after Uni never lived in his childhood home again. He got a flat nearby.

Yes and they knew I didn’t like it, but did it anyway. My father died of an unrelated illness, and my mum is still alive but I worry about her getting lung cancer or dementia because of her old 20 a day habit. I worry about myself too - 1 in 10 people who get lung cancer have never smoked.

They absolutely did know by that time. But they were addicts. Mine smoked like chimneys, DM died from lung cancer and DF from complications of COPD. He had smoked since the age of 14.
I've never smoked and neither do my kids.

Parents and all 4 grandparents smoked in the house and in the car. And it was a total mystery to them why I'd always get car sick, sitting there in the middle of 4 adults puffing away.

I was born in 1955. My mum chain smoked throughout her pregnancies and while I lived at home. Everyone smoked in the 60s. My dad only smoked a single cigarette on social occasions, and was unusual in that. I was the only one of my friends who didn't smoke when I was in sixth form.

When I see posts on Mumsnet about people refusing to let someone hold their child because they'd smoked a few hours earlier, I wonder how on earth my generation came into being and survived for so long.

Obviously I'm not condoning smoking indoors or anywhere else. But the fear of some old second hand smoke is a little out of hand, and just more worry for parents.

Oh yes, both of them. Like chimneys. Also in the car. A positive (though unintended) result is that I have never had any desire whatsoever to smoke.