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Filed under: In The News, Tween Culture, Teen Culture
Even "Smoking Baby" Ardi Rizal has kicked the habit. Credit: Ahamd Naafi, AFP/Getty Images
While that is an extreme case (at least I hope it is), local Health Department official Holly West says that the overall smoking rate has decreased in Kentucky, it has gone up for teenagers.
I used to smoke, and I quit many years ago. I don't know a lot of smokers, but obviously there are still millions of folks who light up every day. I see a lot of articles about how to talk to your kids about sex, and the importance of talking to your children about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. But maybe we should put cigarettes in the same category.
Do you talk to your kids about smoking cigarettes?
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2-18-2011 @ 6:15PM
Sandyone said...I've told my kids that I'd break their arm if they smoked. One of my kids, just the other day, said, "Well, I don't think Mom would *really* break my arm, but she doesn't want me to smoke." I corrected her that I would, indeed, break her arm today to prevent her from suffering from lung cancer in the future. Her eyes got kind of big, but I believe she understands how much I really don't want her to smoke. It's just not fair to do that to the people who love you.
(For the record, I won't be breaking anybody's arm)
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2-21-2011 @ 9:44AM
Malorie said...Let's sure hope you talk to your kids about smoking. If the parents don't teach them right from wrong, who in the world is going to? Cigarettes are bad for your health as we all know and super expensive in the overall scheme of things. Teach your kids to be healthy and spend $ smart - HtTp://bIt.Ly/GetWellStayHealthy has some neat tips and ideas. They also have some healthy free samples worth getting.
2-18-2011 @ 1:20PM
MamaPoodle said...Both my parents smoked (and my stepmother). My older brother and sisters smoked (one sister still does). I smoke (quit when I was pregnant and stupidly took it up again 4 months after my son was born) and my son's dad smokes. I'm in the process of quitting again because I am proof that when you're surrounded by smokers, it's hard to not go down that same road. Oh and it's worth mentioning that I didn't start smoking until I was 19, although my oldest sister started around 12, my brother at 11 and my other sister around 16 or 17. I don't want my son to have the health problems that face my family members as a direct result of smoking and the best way to do that is to be a strong, non-smoking parent. I have to make up for his dad in that regard.
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2-19-2011 @ 1:30AM
Clarissa said...I don't have to speak to my daughter about the dangers of smoking.
My husband's mother passed away from lung cancer and my own mother smokes but has not been yet diagnosed, hopefully won't, vut I do believe she is in the beginning stages of emphysema.
My daughter has seen first hand what it does. That is the best education.
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2-21-2011 @ 12:40PM
Tina said...I wonder what pushs people to pick up smoking. Both my parents smoked two uncles smoked and one dips. But dispite that my sister and I chose not to smoke though my older brother does. I know as a child I hated being stuck in a car while they puffed away so I wonder if that follows you in to adult hood. My husbands parents both smoke and he doesnt but his sister does? Any therories?
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2-22-2011 @ 5:58AM
Lisa Fitzgerald said...My kids didn't see it so need to explain anything.
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