Chloe_Ryder
Well-Known Member
I used to smoke Marlboro and Peter Stuyvesant (the blue brand). When I had money. I used to just score one or two cigs off my friends, especially after they stopped selling singles at the dairy. I just had no bucks for it.
Oh, and on occasion those long, thin, classy looking cigarettes. No idea what they're called. They were pretty crap for the price we paid though. I used to be a social smoker, like how some people only drink in social situations. Not dependent on it or addicted to it.
Nowadays I really don't care if people smoke. There's a big label on most packets that says you're risking your health and those of people around you, and also your own life, if you're to smoke. My mum in-law used to smoke a box of 200 cigs in two weeks, I think. Anyway she always had a cig in hand. I never pushed her to stop or told her to stop (unlike some) but she did it on her own last year. She made the choice to quit just before she came over for our last baby's birth. We never judged her or lectured her, she's a grown woman and responsible for her own actions. We supported her either way, and she knew we didn't like smoking and we had our boundaries, like how we'd prefer her not to smoke around the kids. But they've got laws here in NZ anyway that you can't smoke inside a house you're renting so....
The only tizz I have with people who smoke, are those who deliberately smoke around playgrounds and schools and fields where children are present. Specifically MY children. But those people are asking for confrontation by parents anyway.
Oh, and on occasion those long, thin, classy looking cigarettes. No idea what they're called. They were pretty crap for the price we paid though. I used to be a social smoker, like how some people only drink in social situations. Not dependent on it or addicted to it.
Nowadays I really don't care if people smoke. There's a big label on most packets that says you're risking your health and those of people around you, and also your own life, if you're to smoke. My mum in-law used to smoke a box of 200 cigs in two weeks, I think. Anyway she always had a cig in hand. I never pushed her to stop or told her to stop (unlike some) but she did it on her own last year. She made the choice to quit just before she came over for our last baby's birth. We never judged her or lectured her, she's a grown woman and responsible for her own actions. We supported her either way, and she knew we didn't like smoking and we had our boundaries, like how we'd prefer her not to smoke around the kids. But they've got laws here in NZ anyway that you can't smoke inside a house you're renting so....
The only tizz I have with people who smoke, are those who deliberately smoke around playgrounds and schools and fields where children are present. Specifically MY children. But those people are asking for confrontation by parents anyway.