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.

[WhiteChocolate]

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.

Well good for you about being honest with your kids. I never questioned you as a parent. I was just wondering how you could tell your kids not to smoke and then turn around and light one up, is all . Don't go all ballistic. I never said that I would make a better parent, either. Seriously, you need not jump to conclusions like that. And I seriously have no idea what you mean about me choosing the "peer pressure way out". Makes no sense to me? Maybe it's because I'm so "young" *scoff*......nah.

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.

I never said smokers were 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.

Actually if one of my friends lights up around me, then I ask them not to smoke around me, or leave the room/area. Don't be getting sarcastic on me here. Your points are meaningless. The sun thing is seriously the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. That smoking/secondhand smoking causes cancer wasn't my only point. It also stinks and makes the smoker stink, even when they haven't smoked all day. It's as if it seeps from thier pores.

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.

You know what? I never questioned your skills as a parent whatsoever. Get over yourself. I don't care how old you are there's no need to diss me because I am 16. And how would you know how wise I am? You don't know me...I know plenty of teenagers much wiser than even some SEVENTY year olds, so wisdom has nothing to do with age. I never blew smoke up your ass, I just expressed to you what my opinion is, threw a question your way, and ended up with a rather pricky answer. Thanks so much.