Legal Smoking Age Options

[tkproduce]

Thought I might as well have one on smoking as there's one on drinking.
Most of Europe the legal age is 16.
I believe it's 20 or 21 in the States.
I had my first one when I was 13 or 14, but I never got addicted, although I have a few sometimes with my friends.

[dasturbd]

So you tell your children all about how bad smoking is for you, while you light up and inhale on one of those absolutely delicious cancer-sticks? What a great example!!!!  

I did my teenage smoking thing, and it lasted for all of a couple months. I smoked when my friends did, and it was stupid...I don't understand the concept of lighting leaves on fire and sticking them in your mouth, anyway! ...But then to justify it and act like we're all being unfair to you and other smokers is just silly.

Heck yeah I am glad that the cintax stuff bought the stadium. I know lots of smokers, and they are my friends and I love 'em, but that doesn't mean I want them to give me cancer, too...maybe the high prices of ciggarettes will at least encourage them to stop.

It's right that you shouldn't be allowed to smoke anywhere public. I think it's nasty at restaurants and the like to be sitting anywhere NEAR someone who's smoking. And the whole non-smoking/smoking sections does virtually nothing!

If you want to smoke and give yourself cancer, then that is fine, but to smoke around your loved ones and even strangers, giving them lots of yummy secondhand smoke to inhale is rude and wrong. 


...and that was my complete honest opinion. Nothing to do with popular vote for me

First of all I don't just "tell" my kids about the negative effects, I am honest with them. If being honest is a bad example...then sue me, but at least I'm not a hypocrit. I've smoked for the last 16 years...well before I had my kids and after that long to just "quit" is not as easy as your experimental stage (in which I see you chose the peer pressure way out). I have gone from 3 packs a day to 1 a day in the last 5 years, so don't sit there and attempt to degrade me as a parent when you don't even have a clue. When my kids ask me why I started smoking, i tell them the truth, that i wanted to see what all the hype was about and i liked it.. it wasn't until later on in life when I realised just how hard it is to quit.

I never once asked for pity in here because I smoked and I never once said that anyone was "picking" on me or smokers...I simply said that it was naive to categorize someone based on the fact that they smoke and that then means they are unintelligent and insecure.

So you don't hang around with your smoking friends anymore then right?? Cuz you don't want them to give you cancer...so you cut all ties huh?? You also don't go out in the sun with anything less than spf 50 too I bet, or have never eaten fast food...because I know more people who have died from congenital heart disease than those that got cancer from smoking.

I'll tell ya what, I won't blow smoke in your face as long as you don't blow smoke up my @ss. You are all of 16 yrs. old...hardly wise enough to be giving me advice on my parenting skills. Wait another 16 years and then talk to me about how bad of an example I am, after you yourself deal with decisions you've made in the past. Unless of course you are the almighty perfect human who will never make a decision to do anything you may regret later in life.