Reply #96: I grew up on a smoking household

[vanboggie]

Back in the day when cigarette dangers were not known. So I grew up with two parents who smoked (major second hand smoke) and smoked myself right up through the first 3 1/2 months of my pregnancy. My daughter weighed over 9 pounds. She's beautiful and highly intelligent, too. I suppose studies show something, but second hand smoke equaling small babies does not necessarily occur.

I wonder about the validity of statistical studies. My dad had lung cancer and had smoked, but quit 10 years before diagnosed. He did, however, work on the machinery in a soap manufacturing plant and used to come home covered in white chemical powder. Most of the guys he worked with died of lung cancer as well. Was it the cigarettes that caused the cancer or was it the lax safety measures where he worked? Kind of a chicken and egg thing, yet statistically he was listed as a former smoker = reason for lung cancer.

My State has one of the highest tax rates on cigarettes. Smokers are propping up the school system, but smoking cessation programs? I haven't seen any.

I have been a non smoker for just over three months. I was the rebellious type smoker who the more people lectured me to quit, the more I was told I couldn't smoke, the more determined I was to keep smoking. It's just the way many of us are. Push us and we will not respond - it can be in our nature.

Just some random thoughts - probably because my mind doesn't focus as well as it did three months ago. :hi: