Some kids know they want to chain-smoke as young as 2-3 years old. Early signs include pretending to puff on a crayon, holding a pencil between their middle and index fingers, strong cravings for candy “cigarettes,” and rapidly making “huffing” sounds or deeply exhaling.
Be an inclusive adult. Tell them about people who smoke.
Educate them on the long and diverse history of tobacco use and smoking, from Native Americans’ sacred rituals to European sailors and beyond.
Show them pictures of iconic smokers from diverse backgrounds and the vintage ads that made smoking look cool. Ensure they recognize they’re part of a long and chic tradition.
“Oh, you WANT to try this because you see an adult doing it, even if I don’t want to?”
“TRY IT. TRY IT NOW.”
I had one lung full of pipe smoke, premium Danish tobacco for which my father would pay upward from £30 per half kilo back in the 1970s.
That taught me I didn’t really want smoking as a habit, and although I’ve had smoker girlfriends, they didn’t stick around.
Probably trying to get them to quit because it felt like I was “snogging an ashtray” did a lot of it.
Mmmmm, tasty ashtray, let’s roll my tongue around in that, so fun.
🙂
Let kids discover early that their parents may be horrible people with horrible vices, it’s better than being manipulated and threatened by seemingly invincible people who want to maintain total control of your life, especially maintaining the bizarre concept of always being right.
Yeah, we both have shit families, but I’m a horrible person who let his manipulative mother go into Crown custody and stay there with my help.
I vaguely remember we talked about cryptocoins and forex stuff related to family stuff?
So the manipulation is nothing new.
People who live in glass houses surrounded by glass courtyards in a glass neighbourhood surrounded by glass in a gated glass community full of people who move about on roller skates made of glass … yeah, stones are outlawed here. 🙂
But this thing where people take a principle and use it to allow all sorts of nonsense?
I can’t be a great example here: as a kid I helped my father remove tree stumps with a .303 Enfield and leaky propane canisters, but I do appreciate the spirit of the people who said I really shouldn’t do that …
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“Oh, you WANT to try this because you see an adult doing it, even if I don’t want to?”
“TRY IT. TRY IT NOW.”
I had one lung full of pipe smoke, premium Danish tobacco for which my father would pay upward from £30 per half kilo back in the 1970s.
That taught me I didn’t really want smoking as a habit, and although I’ve had smoker girlfriends, they didn’t stick around.
Probably trying to get them to quit because it felt like I was “snogging an ashtray” did a lot of it.
Mmmmm, tasty ashtray, let’s roll my tongue around in that, so fun.
🙂
Let kids discover early that their parents may be horrible people with horrible vices, it’s better than being manipulated and threatened by seemingly invincible people who want to maintain total control of your life, especially maintaining the bizarre concept of always being right.
Yeah, we both have shit families, but I’m a horrible person who let his manipulative mother go into Crown custody and stay there with my help.
I vaguely remember we talked about cryptocoins and forex stuff related to family stuff?
So the manipulation is nothing new.
People who live in glass houses surrounded by glass courtyards in a glass neighbourhood surrounded by glass in a gated glass community full of people who move about on roller skates made of glass … yeah, stones are outlawed here. 🙂
But this thing where people take a principle and use it to allow all sorts of nonsense?
I can’t be a great example here: as a kid I helped my father remove tree stumps with a .303 Enfield and leaky propane canisters, but I do appreciate the spirit of the people who said I really shouldn’t do that …
Not the police so much, but everyone else. 🙂
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