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Should you let your teenager smoke at home?

Results so far:

Yes
18% 25 votes Total: 140 votes
No
82% 115 votes
  • 1 of 3

    by Christine Hill

    Having grown up in the days when there was no harm in smoking, no suggestion of the fact that smoking could kill you or shorten your life span, everyone I knew smoked, including...read more

  • by Barb Jackson

    What do you do when you find out your teenager is smoking cigarettes? Obviously everyone by now should know that smoking is a nasty unhealthy habit, but teenagers are still sta...read more

  • 3 of 3

    by Nita Frazier

    grew up in a smoking household. Both parents smoked, as did one grandfather, and an aunt and uncle. All three died of smoking related issues: lung and throat cancer, and heart d...read more

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  • 1 of 13

    by Karon Brandt

    Smoking used to be "cool." Everyone smoked. Television ads, magazine ads, billboards blitzed peoples' minds with the idea that smoking was OK. Today, we are much more enligh...read more

  • 2 of 13

    by Carolyn Tytler

    Not only should you forbid your teenager to smoke at home, you should firmly discourage him from smoking anywhere, ever. Allowing a teen to smoke at home is comparable to allowi...read more

  • by K K Whitmore

    Parents should not allow their teens to smoke at home or anywhere around them. They should also make it clear that their teen shouldn't be smoking in other places, either. It sh...read more

  • 4 of 13

    by Tammy Lee White

    It is not a parent's job to be cool, popular or best friends with their child. It is a parent's responsibility to raise happy, healthy kids to the best of their ability. Put y...read more

  • 5 of 13

    by Cindy Denolf

    As a long time smoker, one thing I would not do is let my teen smoke at home. At the age of thirteen, my mother started letting my sister and I smoke and even bought them for u...read more

  • 6 of 13

    by John Gugie

    I do not believe that you should allow your teenagers to smoke at home. This is a ridiculous question. Underage people should not be allowed to smoke in the home for a few r...read more

  • 7 of 13

    by Jane Allyson

    I feel that it is all a matter of individual choice. If the parents already smoke, then it may be slightly unfair to expect their teenager not to smoke in the home, if they alr...read more

  • 8 of 13

    by Barbara Kasey Smith

    I would not allow my teenage children to smoke and definitely not in our home. I believe that teenagers should not smoke until they are old enough to be aware of the consequence...read more

  • 9 of 13

    by Anna Johnson

    Light up why not? I mean what we are coming to no rules in the household. Just to say what at least I know my child is doing it in front of me. Parent means control at all times...read more

  • 10 of 13

    by Alice Mcmahan

    Let your teen smoke at home? Well, while you're at it, bring out the vodka, pot and cocaine. You are a parent. What are you thinking? Parents are supposed to provide love, car...read more

  • 11 of 13

    by Chrissy Linn

    Letting your teen smoke cigarettes at home is wrong, let alone allowing your teen to smoke at all. Beside the issues of legality, there is a stigma of irresponsibility that co...read more

  • 12 of 13

    by Kim Sharpe

    You should not let your teenager smoke at all! Of course, I know that many teens do smoke and the parents cannot stop the disgusting and nasty habit from taking place but the...read more

  • 13 of 13

    by Toni Ruiz

    Well coming from a household of seven, I was the only one who did not smoke. I was the third child of four. I must admit that at the age of fourteen I did try cigarettes and t...read more

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