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Does your teen or DC in their 20's vape?

75 replies

InTheSky6 · 24/12/2025 10:40

Does your teen/DC in their teens or 20’s vape? Our DD (she lives away at uni) vapes and refuses to stop and insists it’s not bad for her health when it is!

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Natsku · 24/12/2025 13:31

My 14 year old DD doesn't vape, thinks its utterly stupid and is very disappointed in her ex-friend who vapes now.

ohtowinthelottery · 24/12/2025 13:33

DS 29 doesn't and never has, as far as I know.

huuskymam · 24/12/2025 13:35

My 24 year old does when shes on a night out cause her friend does and doesn't like going outside alone. My 21 year old doesn't smoke, vape or drink cause driving home after work/night out is much more important than having to bus it.

onlymethen · 24/12/2025 13:36

Neither of my children vape or smoke. Actually none of our family Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents cousins do either.

Milando · 24/12/2025 13:52

Two DDs aged 24 and 27 - neither of them has ever drunk, smoked, vaped or taken any other drugs.

DD1 is an autistic rule-follower (as a child she used to go up to strangers smoking and tell them they were going to die), so not at all out of character for her, but DD2 is more socially normal so I was expecting her to start dabbling at least with alcohol as a teenager - but both of them independently made the decision very early on to be teetotal and seem to have surrounded themselves with likeminded friends, which I’m very glad about.

ShanghaiDiva · 24/12/2025 13:54

No - 25 and 19.

tinyspiny · 24/12/2025 13:56

Ours are 32 and 26 neither smoke or vape or ever have done . We are a family on non smokers as I have emphysema probably from second hand smoking growing up .

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/12/2025 13:58

My 25 year old DD did for about a year, she gave up.

Thatonenight · 24/12/2025 14:01

He’ll no. I would never allow it.

I feel like we should’ve scarified the older generation that apparently needed flavoured vapes to get off of cigarettes as it’s created a whole generation of vapers.

I was born in 92 none of my siblings or friends smoke or vape. Generation before smoked generation after vapes. It’s sad. We were about to be free from this nicotine addiction as a society.

evtheria · 24/12/2025 14:03

Dneighbour’s daughter started around 15 with vapes, she is now 18.
I’m pretty sure (99%) my nieces and nephew (all teens) don’t, but it’s just not their crowd.

Lamentingalways · 24/12/2025 14:05

DisappointedD · 24/12/2025 12:14

’Ciggie’ - awful word, makes me cringe. 😬

Not the person posting’s problem that something makes you cringe though is it? She’s not going to stop for a stranger on the internet, especially a rude one that likes to point out they’ve said something ‘cringe’ and tried to embarrass them!

christmassytimeagain · 24/12/2025 14:08

yes, I have 3 extremely different and well behaved engaged interested kids and they all vape as do the vast majority of the teens we know. And yes, private school vaping in the toilets is rife.

I have taken the view it’s not a hill I’m going to die on. I hate it, it’s strictly prohibited in my house and in front of me but I have decided there are bigger battles I’m prepared to fight and this isn’t one of them.

MumChp · 24/12/2025 14:09

No. They don't. Both have medical degrees.

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/12/2025 14:11

MumChp · 24/12/2025 14:09

No. They don't. Both have medical degrees.

What's that got to do with it, them having a medical degrees. Some doctors smoke so do some nurses. Just need to see them having to go off site for one.

StupidHappyClocks · 24/12/2025 14:14

21 yr old doesn’t and has no interest in vaping, is quite sniffy about it (‘it’s pathetic’ etc) 🤣

17 yr old has tried it at a couple of parties, but hated it. Most of her friends in sixth form vape, though.

Not much you can do once they’re adults, really, other than to make it clear you won’t be funding their habit if they’re still dependent on you.

StupidHappyClocks · 24/12/2025 14:16

MumChp · 24/12/2025 14:09

No. They don't. Both have medical degrees.

🤣

MumChp · 24/12/2025 14:16

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/12/2025 14:11

What's that got to do with it, them having a medical degrees. Some doctors smoke so do some nurses. Just need to see them having to go off site for one.

I suppose they know better because they work in hospitals. Maybe not but the don't wape.

FunnysInLaJardin · 24/12/2025 14:16

neither of my DC do aged 16 and 20, but I do!

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/12/2025 14:17

MumChp · 24/12/2025 14:16

I suppose they know better because they work in hospitals. Maybe not but the don't wape.

Well just say that, don't need to drop in the medical degrees.

Pancakeflipper · 24/12/2025 14:19

So far no. But most of their friends don't seem to either.

Our neighbours son does - always hanging out of his bedroom window.

hiredandsqueak · 24/12/2025 14:32

No dd 22 doesn't vape and has never smoked. My older ones don't vape or smoke either. I think I put the fear of God into them when young though as my dm died when I was a teen from lung cancer and it was important to me that they didn't.

Londonnight · 24/12/2025 14:33

DS 25 doesn't vape or smoke.

gogomomo2 · 24/12/2025 14:33

No, non smoking non drug household

gogomomo2 · 24/12/2025 14:33

No, non smoking non drug household

gogomomo2 · 24/12/2025 14:33

No, non smoking non drug household