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Oh right! Smoking gave the child asthma of course!

What a stupid thing to say pal.

 

That's how it seemed from the wording.

Anyone who smokes around a child wants a good talking to. It's a matter of respect, if nothing else. If you want to smoke, go outside. I do that anyway. I never smoke in the house. A house stinking of fag smoke is... common. Not nice.

 

My youngest was three, as I recall, when I took up that habit for my last, and longest, period. One day when with new taxes added in, and a weekend's worth of smokes would cost $10 -- I think that's how it added up -- there were stop smoking patches on sale for a dollar more for five.

I bought patches, not cigarets that day, ending a 30 year habit that had been hovering at two packs a day for a couple of years. It was literally three years before occasional urges to grab at a shirt pocket for the pack would end.

It was only two years before my weight suddenly jumped from 175 to 205, and ended up stuck at 185 .. I wonder if that means I'd have weighed this much back before I was 55 or so and entered the semi- sedentary lifestyle? Ah, well, I wake up each day without that really bad taste in my mouth, and that's worth a very great deal.

 

I disagree. You know how expensive it is to run and maintain a child? You'd have to feed your kid straw and re-use each nappy 7 times to be able to afford to buy cigarettes as well.

 

You skipped right past what I wrote without reading it. I did, indeed, combine raising a family, sending kids to private schools, Little League, Pop Warner football, etc. with the smelly habit of smoking cigarets, on an Insurance Underwriter's moderate salary.

Maybe the cigarets are why our vacations were never on Cruise Ships, or at any resorts on the Riviera, the luxury stuff like that . . however, I do seem to recall that the oldest two children missed out on the disposable diapers. I washed cloth diapers every day. The throw-out kind either hadn't existed yet, or started out at a much higher cost than they were when the youngest of the three was born.

When I quit, I was at a checkout register with five packs at almost $2 USD each at the time, about as many as I sometimes smoked on a weekend, and within a week, a new tax cost added was going to make that a $12.50 purchase. A nearby display of stop- smoking patches had five of those marked down to $12, I think. I chose the patches instead.

[ May 26, 2007, 00:10: Message edited by: Kiwi ]

 

You may have managed it, but I can't possibly see how the numbers could stack up, unless you are some sort of zillionaire. Cigarettes are expensive!!

 

I actually used to smoke back when I was in junior high, but I quit during my freshman year of high school and never went back (thank god). I'm currently 33 years old, so that was a while ago.

That said, I DO still partake in the occasional CIGAR, maybe 6 - 10 in a year, usually for special occasions. I don't inhale those suckers though; it's more about the smooth flavor (I only smoke quality cigars), and there's just something relaxing about a quality stogey, coupled with, say, a glass of brandy.

When my son is born in July, you better believe that I'll be enjoying one of the finest cigars I can get my hands on!

 

I haven't paid any attention to the cost in several years, but it hasn't yet been a full decade since I quit that final time. (I'd quit first when I had young children at home, then started again when the boys were older, and my little girl mostly just lived with her mother - that divorce may have figured in the return to the habit.)

 

Yes, unfortunately. You may remember I tried to give up earlier this year, but after about 6 weeks the temptation got me at the wrong time (namely when I was drunk)

Usually about 20 a day, I'm quite a heavy smoker. More often if I'm particularly bored, stressed or depressed. I do intend to give up completely, I just have to find the right time.