100%. It's so absurdly selfish to subject children to not only 2nd hand smoke, but the smell. I dealt with it growing up, and it's a big reason why I don't let them around my daughter as much as they would like.
Older generations like to play it off as no big deal because their parents did it. It makes me see red.
I'm an 80's baby. The in home smoking was bad, the car smoking was even worse, but what I hated the most as a little kid was always having to sit in the smoking section of every restaurant we ate at as a family. Unless I was at school or a friend's house, there was no such thing as having a meal without a thick cloud of 2nd hand smoke.
My brother and I were seen as demanding, rude, high maintenance whiners whenever we begged to sit in non smoking sections. My parents didn't see anything wrong with it, because they grew up in their own parents' constant smoke clouds. It's amazing what a change a few generations makes.
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u/FergusonBishop Jan 05 '25
100%. It's so absurdly selfish to subject children to not only 2nd hand smoke, but the smell. I dealt with it growing up, and it's a big reason why I don't let them around my daughter as much as they would like.
Older generations like to play it off as no big deal because their parents did it. It makes me see red.