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My parents both smoked, so I smelled like smoke at school. It was good cover--it took them a while to realize I'd been smoking since I was 12. My sister never did smoke; she just smelled like she did.
I don't have kids. If I had kids and they didn't want me to smoke around them, they would have to live outside. All that fresh air...be good for 'em.
My parents never knew I smoked in the house either. I started at 15 and once my Mom found a pack of cigarettes in my ski jacket she went to wash without asking me. I said they belonged to a friend and left it laying on the dryer for weeks. My Dad finally smoked them. I confessed many years later. At least we know what to look for our kids!
It's funny you mention the kids smelling like smoke. With all the substitute teaching I have done this past year, I only had one child who noticeably smelled like smoke, and it was awful. As it happens, she is my youngest's "girlfriend", so I asked him one day if he ever noticed it and he said that her dad smokes at home. The poor kid...I think of all the crap her lungs are having to deal with at the age of 6.
My parents were both heavy smokers when my brother and I were growing up. I doubt my mom even stopped smoking when she was pregnant with either one of us, because way back then (my mom is in her 60's) there wasnt the same concerns as there is now. I used to hate going on long road trips with both parents smoking in the car. My brother and I are both completely scarred from it! Probably why neither one of us has ever had the urge to even TRY smoking.
It completely grosses me out!