Yes. And I have had asthma since 91, my older brother was diagnosed this year, and my younger brother had chronic bronchitis.
My husband goes outside to smoke. He wheezes a lot but until the doctor tells him it's problematic, he'll ignore it. Since he doesn't go to doctors, he can't get diagnosed. (His aunt died of COPD last year but heck, why should that influence what he does with HIS lungs. )
@MsELizardBeth Sad that pretty much everyone smoked back then, and clever marketing and politics let it go on for so long. Sorry to hear you all have issues from it. I feel bad for your husband since he has the choice to smoke or not and chooses to, it's almost certain it will catch up with him.
My dad had to smoke outside or in the basement, my mom laid down the rule on that one. The better question for any 1970's and 1980's babies is, "How many of you were born to a mother that smoked while pregnant"???
My parents chain smoked when I was little...in the house, in the car with all the windows rolled up and my brothers and I begging for them to crack one. When my Aunt died with lung cancer, they threw the cigs away and never smoked again. By then I was 21 and had my own place. Even though they quit, the damage was done. My Mom died 3 years ago with lung cancer.
Like chimneys! I always wondered why there was no peer pressure to smoke. I finally realized after a semester away at college that I stunk to high Heaven. I can only imagine people already assumed I smoked.
Sad thing, also diagnosed with asthma, I do suspect my mother smoked while pregnant with me, contributing to my being born 2 1/2 months early - never asked.
Amazing thing, the day I announced I was pregnant with my first child, my parents vowed to stop smoking before her birth. They were successful and still are 14 years later.
I think youth and stupidity played a big hand in it, not lack of caring. I am glad I finally gave them the impetus to stop.
Yes, because they didn't know any better back then. My dad now has COPD and needs oxygen. It's terrible, but I am certain his grandkids will never smoke after seeing what he goes through.
pretty much everyone did, grandpa smoked 2 packs a day of either Winstons or Marlboros. honestly, you can hardly find a photo of him without a ciggy. The only way he ever quit, was after having his right leg amputated below the knee, for the month or 2 he was laid up at home recouping, no one would buy him smokes. By the time he was able to get out on his own, it was out of his system. (Died of Leukemia in Nov 98, one month short of his 77th Birthday.)
Don't know how Grandma Lived as long as she did. She had had TB, maybe a full lung capacity between the 2. She worked her whole career as a nurse, and in those days, all the non public spaces in the hospitals were smoke filled, then when she got home, her husband and all 3 sons smoked. (she also had Congestive Heart Failure, and was given 6 mos to live back around '47. Died of a heart attack in '97)
I don't know how people smoke in their houses. One of the first places I lived in after high school was in a large house with six other people. We all smoked but not in the house. We were drinking one weekend and my roommate, who owned the house, said screw the rule and started smoking. So we all joined in, all weekend. By Sunday morning, we decided to stop. The house smelled like the anus of an ash tray (if that was actually thing, that's what it smelled like). Never smoked in the house after that.
My mom has smoked throughout her life and when I was around 12 and telling her all the things school had said was bad about smoking she said they were brainwashing me.
My dad smoked in the house my entire life from the 80s to the 2000s- My mom allowed it. Strange thing when I grew up and moved out my mom made my dad smoke outside. I don’t know what the motivating factor was, but raising young children would have been nice at the time. They preached that the dangers of smoking in their days weren’t known - yet they preached the same concept since I was a kid to deter me from smoking.
Lots of weed.
Explains SO MUCH.
Pops smoked in the basement. It kept the smoke out but not the smell off him.
My dad probably would have smoked in the house around me if he hadn't gotten esophageal cancer two years before I was born.
In the 60's, my mom was smoking in the doctor's office while he was trying to give her a solution to my breathing problems.
Grandma and grandpa always did.
Parents did not, but there were always ashtrays in the house. I never understood why.
Yes. And I have had asthma since 91, my older brother was diagnosed this year, and my younger brother had chronic bronchitis.
My husband goes outside to smoke. He wheezes a lot but until the doctor tells him it's problematic, he'll ignore it. Since he doesn't go to doctors, he can't get diagnosed. (His aunt died of COPD last year but heck, why should that influence what he does with HIS lungs. )
..... I'm not a fan, in case you missed it.
@MsELizardBeth Sad that pretty much everyone smoked back then, and clever marketing and politics let it go on for so long. Sorry to hear you all have issues from it. I feel bad for your husband since he has the choice to smoke or not and chooses to, it's almost certain it will catch up with him.
Grandma smoked Newports anytime she visited.
My dad smoked a pipe, but never in the house. He bought his tobacco via mail order, and my brothers and I used to love the smell of it in the package.
My dad had to smoke outside or in the basement, my mom laid down the rule on that one. The better question for any 1970's and 1980's babies is, "How many of you were born to a mother that smoked while pregnant"???
My parents chain smoked when I was little...in the house, in the car with all the windows rolled up and my brothers and I begging for them to crack one. When my Aunt died with lung cancer, they threw the cigs away and never smoked again. By then I was 21 and had my own place. Even though they quit, the damage was done. My Mom died 3 years ago with lung cancer.
Like chimneys! I always wondered why there was no peer pressure to smoke. I finally realized after a semester away at college that I stunk to high Heaven. I can only imagine people already assumed I smoked.
Sad thing, also diagnosed with asthma, I do suspect my mother smoked while pregnant with me, contributing to my being born 2 1/2 months early - never asked.
Amazing thing, the day I announced I was pregnant with my first child, my parents vowed to stop smoking before her birth. They were successful and still are 14 years later.
I think youth and stupidity played a big hand in it, not lack of caring. I am glad I finally gave them the impetus to stop.
On the patio, with the slider door open= smoke came in anyway.
I half way expected this to be one of those mesothelioma type of "call now to get the money you deserve" commercials.
Yes, because they didn't know any better back then. My dad now has COPD and needs oxygen. It's terrible, but I am certain his grandkids will never smoke after seeing what he goes through.
pretty much everyone did, grandpa smoked 2 packs a day of either Winstons or Marlboros. honestly, you can hardly find a photo of him without a ciggy. The only way he ever quit, was after having his right leg amputated below the knee, for the month or 2 he was laid up at home recouping, no one would buy him smokes. By the time he was able to get out on his own, it was out of his system. (Died of Leukemia in Nov 98, one month short of his 77th Birthday.)
Don't know how Grandma Lived as long as she did. She had had TB, maybe a full lung capacity between the 2. She worked her whole career as a nurse, and in those days, all the non public spaces in the hospitals were smoke filled, then when she got home, her husband and all 3 sons smoked. (she also had Congestive Heart Failure, and was given 6 mos to live back around '47. Died of a heart attack in '97)
I don't know how people smoke in their houses. One of the first places I lived in after high school was in a large house with six other people. We all smoked but not in the house.
We were drinking one weekend and my roommate, who owned the house, said screw the rule and started smoking. So we all joined in, all weekend. By Sunday morning, we decided to stop. The house smelled like the anus of an ash tray (if that was actually thing, that's what it smelled like). Never smoked in the house after that.
My mom has smoked throughout her life and when I was around 12 and telling her all the things school had said was bad about smoking she said they were brainwashing me.
Crazy, smoke free family all around. Cant think of anyone that smoked.
I moved to Japan where EVERYONE smokes so I picked it up. Returned to the USA - San Francisco where NO ONE smokes and quit cold turkey.
My dad smoked in the house my entire life from the 80s to the 2000s- My mom allowed it. Strange thing when I grew up and moved out my mom made my dad smoke outside. I don’t know what the motivating factor was, but raising young children would have been nice at the time. They preached that the dangers of smoking in their days weren’t known - yet they preached the same concept since I was a kid to deter me from smoking.
Hypocrites.
@ark11 Wow. Did you join just to post that?
@therealjrn No, they joined just to post that and raise a necrothread from 2016.
@mike808 Do you think they have been stewing over this for 2 1/2 years?
That doesn’t sound very healthy, stress will kill you quicker than smoking.