Smoking in front of your children, right or wrong?

[virasisog]

Do we even need to think about it?
Why would we even consider it right, when it exposed those child to potential health issue, not to mention that they could also copy what they see so it could lead to them being an early smoker.

[Mr Reporter]

At least have some shame and and do even think of smoking in front of kids well what the lessons you are passing to them..I had a friend back then when he wanted to smoke he called his first son to buy him cigarettes and some beers which was something that should not even happen on a regular day…because tha truth is they are kids and their head picks up thing faster and they learn so fast then us so maybe they program smoking as a good thing and which is not to happen at all…

[Man of peace]

Smoking in front of your children is wrong when you as parent did not want your children to smoke, but if you are allow everyone to choose his or her lifestyle,then it's not wrong to smoke in front of your children because definitely a child who will smoke must definitely smoke weather his father has ever smoked in front of him or her or not, because he or she did not even need his father to smoke in front of him or her before he or she can start smoking because he or she have already chosen his or her lifestyle .if you hide it from him or her his or her friends are out there to teach him or her and believe me she or he might be perfect than you..

[L E G E N D A R Y]

Do we even need to think about it?
Why would we even consider it right, when it exposed those child to potential health issue, not to mention that they could also copy what they see so it could lead to them being an early smoker.

I read the previous comments and someone said it’s better that way because it means you’re being honest to your kids, which is just a very dumb idea.
 
The truth is that, if anyone who’s willing and ready to watch their kids smoke at such tender in their presence, then sure, they can go ahead and smoke in their presence, but if not, then stay as far away as you can from your kids as possible cos kids learn faster than adults.

[BADecker]

Do we even need to think about it?
Why would we even consider it right, when it exposed those child to potential health issue, not to mention that they could also copy what they see so it could lead to them being an early smoker.

I read the previous comments and someone said it’s better that way because it means you’re being honest to your kids, which is just a very dumb idea.
 
The truth is that, if anyone who’s willing and ready to watch their kids smoke at such tender in their presence, then sure, they can go ahead and smoke in their presence, but if not, then stay as far away as you can from your kids as possible cos kids learn faster than adults.

The problem is the chemicals they add to the tobacco these days. The second problem is the lies about tobacco and nicotine being habit forming when it is really the chemicals that are added.

If you smoke in front of your kids, teach them how and where to get pure, and unadulterated tobacco, and how healthy smoking this is for them.

After all, if you eat eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, and all kinds of other standard veggies, you are getting nicotine. It's just that tobacco is one of the plants that has the most nicotine.





EDIT: Nicotine is one of the chemicals that cures COVID-19. The reason that tobacco companies add addicting chemicals to the tobacco is so the medical has an excuse to say that nicotine is habit forming. Why would they do that? Because nicotine is naturally one of the most protective chemicals, health-wise. And if you don't get sick, you don't need the medical, and they don't make money.

[Somto9Light]

The truth is that, if anyone who’s willing and ready to watch their kids smoke at such tender in their presence, then sure, they can go ahead and smoke in their presence, but if not, then stay as far away as you can from your kids as possible cos kids learn faster than adults.

And one thing about children is that they start learning from home before extending their learning to the outside world, that’s why majority of the behaviors that makes up child’s are the ones he learnt from home, especially from the parents. And the truth is that bad habits sticks faster than the good ones.

Sure Children can learn things from the outside world and environment around them, but there’s every tendency they’ll not grow with those if the parents are always there to correct them, and such behaviors are easier to let go than those which they see or witness their parents indulge in. This is because the parents to a child is their first role models and mentors so even at a very young age, they try to copy them as much as they can.

[Tmoonz]

For me I don't see it as morally right, though it's personal as what may appear not been moral may differ from another person view but generally children learn fast with what they sees their parents do is what they may likely practice, if the parents council the children well about the danger and they adhere to it better but not ideal beside children that is not up to accountability age where they can make personal decision need not to be exposed with certain things because it will endangered there health as well influence their lifestyle.

That's good points, to some children their judgement will be that since it is something being practice by their parents they will never agree to the idea that it is a bad habit because they trust and believe in their parents to be the best and in whatever they do, so even when the parent council their child of the game danger they will feel that they are only trying to deceive them and not to have the fun they are having, home is the first school of every child and when you see most teenagers smoking you can trace the background it can happen as a likelihood occurrence of what they got from the parent.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Back then it's generally abnormal to even smoke in the public in most society but adoption of others culture or acculturation has killed many culture of other society where most abnormal has become norms and normal, but those who are built on morality and see such as ways of communication and training that need not to be shown to their children at the Early stage of live, by try as much as possible to prevent them if getting such knowledge or even understand they smoke, though I na not lover of smoking but if am one I can't allow the smoking syndrome to control me because, because smoking in front of my children seem addicted like I would rather stay outside and do all my smoking or drug before reaching home possibly do it also in their absence in the house if necessary, it's base on individual some see it as normal.

[Exitoral]

It's very bad. Like very, let me explain. Firstly, smoking 🚬 generally is bad. As it affects your health negatively. Secondly, it will eventually become an addiction. Thirdly, in front of kids is way worst than you just hiding and doing it. Now combine my first and second reason why I say it's bad and imagine a kid doing that. When on a norms kids body are still developing and exposing such kids to addictive and harmful substance like smoking can and will hinder the growth of the child if he or she tries to indulge in it and actually does it.

[Mr Reporter]

Like back then there was this young guy in my area when I was kids still going to school, so he was a smoker then and he was addicted to the habit of this smoking…and one day he went to send me to get him some smokes from a local store and there was an old man stand at the back of my house..and the old said I should not even collect the money to go get him anything at that time…well honestly speaking to me it felt disrespectful but the fact is that i might have to test what it was one day so i didn’t collect the money and I even bought the smoke…that was how i ended not knowing what it meant to send a young boy like me smoke..

[DYOR+BTC]

It's very bad. Like very, let me explain. Firstly, smoking 🚬 generally is bad. As it affects your health negatively. Secondly, it will eventually become an addiction. Thirdly, in front of kids is way worst than you just hiding and doing it. Now combine my first and second reason why I say it's bad and imagine a kid doing that. When on a norms kids body are still developing and exposing such kids to addictive and harmful substance like smoking can and will hinder the growth of the child if he or she tries to indulge in it and actually does it.

I think you stand to be corrected,  because you dont like or welcome the idea of smoking is never a good reason to say smoking is a bad practice. In as much as another man's smoking done not conflict my interest is see no reason being too quick in pronouncing judgement to smokers that smoking is bad.
From my own perspective I think it is very wrong smoking in from of children as they are always too fast in learning any thing they sees with there eyes.

[Aliciaworld]

I was chilling with my siblings at the rooftop bar section of a hotel when I noticed this man who came on a date with his family and was smoking cannabis freely in front of his wife and two beautiful children of as not more than 5 and 7. It was unpleasant to me because children see their parents as role models and are very fast to copying what they see their parents do. Exposing them to such experience at a tender age reinforces the desire to smoke in them and may even see them start smoking before they are adults, with or without the knowledge and permission of their parents.

Furthermore, there are health implication of inhaling cannabis in their tender body systems. Children can suffer seizures and even breathing problems from cannabis poisoning, it can also cause asthma attacks, unnecessary agitation and even decreased coordination in children. Temporal effects on children can last from 24-36 hours.

I don't condemn smoking as an adult, but it is a better practice not to expose these very tender ones to the harsh physical, health and psychological effects of smoking.

Do you agree to this?

Some parents fail to understand that their kids look up to them as a role model, the person who they want to be like when they grow up. It’s not a good idea for a parent to expose their smoking habit to their children, it is something the parents should be ashame to do in the present of their kids. You cannot sure if the children will grow up without following what you do. Children always believe that their parents will not do anything wrong, so they may think that smoking is also the right thing.

Smoking is not something a parent should be proud of. I known a man who smoke and has four children, while two of them also smoke, but as a father, he cannot tell them to stop smoking because he is also doing the same thing. In order to correct our children or someone, we need to be a good example for them.

If you're smoking in front of your children, it's more like teaching them to smoke and they will eventually start smoking at any slight opportunity especially if they don't know the harmful effects of smoking. Also as a parent that knows what smoking does and loves your children you won't smoke in their presence because they're still children and their immune system is not well developed which predisposes them to contact infections faster than adults as smoking causes respiratory infections and lung cancer to both the smoker and second hand smokers(i.e just inhaling the smoke without smoking).

[Judith87403]

It's very bad. Like very, let me explain. Firstly, smoking 🚬 generally is bad. As it affects your health negatively. Secondly, it will eventually become an addiction. Thirdly, in front of kids is way worst than you just hiding and doing it. Now combine my first and second reason why I say it's bad and imagine a kid doing that. When on a norms kids body are still developing and exposing such kids to addictive and harmful substance like smoking can and will hinder the growth of the child if he or she tries to indulge in it and actually does it.

I think you stand to be corrected,  because you dont like or welcome the idea of smoking is never a good reason to say smoking is a bad practice. In as much as another man's smoking done not conflict my interest is see no reason being too quick in pronouncing judgement to smokers that smoking is bad.
From my own perspective I think it is very wrong smoking in from of children as they are always too fast in learning any thing they sees with there eyes.

It’s not about liking what the habit does or not, but about what the habit does to the person. Everyone knows that smoking has several internal implications and is hazardous for the human body, that alone makes it bad, so saying smoking is bad isn’t about the action it’s but the effects of that action. I don’t know if you understand what I’m trying to say here. If I say it’s not good to put your hand in a flame, has nothing to do with whether I like the flame or not, but because I know that putting your hand in a flame would definitely hurt you badly.

[Dunamisx]

There are bad habits we should deal with and part of such is for a father to be smoking in front of his children, this is barbaric and weird, we stand to gain nothing from doing so, instead, a father that does all this is only losing is integrity and reputation in front of the children because they are seen what he is doing and also having something ringing in their mind about that same thing, but until they grow up before they know if it was something good or bad they have been seeing over time with their father doing it.

[Princess Leah]

There are bad habits we should deal with and part of such is for a father to be smoking in front of his children, this is barbaric and weird, we stand to gain nothing from doing so, instead, a father that does all this is only losing is integrity and reputation in front of the children because they are seen what he is doing and also having something ringing in their mind about that same thing, but until they grow up before they know if it was something good or bad they have been seeing over time with their father doing it.

Lately kids learn very fast my nephew at two years plus could easily operate devices and find his way to YouTube to watch Cocomelon it was good his parents kept the YouTube app on the devices at home on parental control so he doesn't find his way to sexual related videos that would corrupt his mind.

 Imagine such kids is exposed to smoking or caught his dad rolling up Marijuana, I think he'll be interested in learning that too since he saw his dad doing it. Such things are why they shouldn't be exposed to things that would get them corrupt and smoking is one of them, the man the OP is talking about it careless

[o48o]

Do we even need to think about it?
Why would we even consider it right, when it exposed those child to potential health issue, not to mention that they could also copy what they see so it could lead to them being an early smoker.

That depends, as kids might as well rebel with smoking because their parents don't smoke. I mean, i have smoked and my kids have seen it. Not that i encourage anyone doing it, but it's all about the context and how you explain it to kids.

My offspring haven't started to smoke after they grew up. They hated how my clothes smelled and i explained how utterly stupid and easy it was to start. It wasn't cool, but peer pressure and self loath that got me started.

They have also seen me quit smoking, and i have talked with them how hard that was. They respect me more for actually quitting it, because that shows self discipline and self respect.

[Obulis]

I have seen that happened where children playing with each other begin to copy their fathers or relatives who are smokers by wrapping paper or holding stick. Some go as far as lighting this paper or stick. All this are as a result of smoking freely in front of children. The tendency to copy smoking becomes higher when it's father (mother as it may be) and relatives than when it's seen outside the house by other people.
Honestly children should be surprised to find out that their parent do smoke not something they started seeing since they begin to remember things.

[Mr Reporter]

I have seen that happened where children playing with each other begin to copy their fathers or relatives who are smokers by wrapping paper or holding stick. Some go as far as lighting this paper or stick. All this are as a result of smoking freely in front of children. The tendency to copy smoking becomes higher when it's father (mother as it may be) and relatives than when it's seen outside the house by other people.
Honestly children should be surprised to find out that their parent do smoke not something they started seeing since they begin to remember things.

I think all most everyone passes through this process while there where growing back then lighting of paper to smoke I guess we all learned it from watching television or saw it live…this days kids are very fast to pick up such things and are very smart to learn bad things..see just forget it and stop calling your kids at home children they are very intelligent and smart to the extent they try out everything to see the out come of what it looks like..that why as a parent you not even be thinking of smoking or send there to get such items for your as a their guidance..

[BADecker]

Only smoke in back of your children, if you are guiding them in the right ways to use/hold the smoking paraphernalia.

[Judith87403]

Do we even need to think about it?
Why would we even consider it right, when it exposed those child to potential health issue, not to mention that they could also copy what they see so it could lead to them being an early smoker.

It’s really funny how some people could actually see nothing wrong with that. Well everyone has their own opinions and definitions of what wrong and right is, including certain societies. What may seem to be right to one may appear to be wrong to another, but as long as something threatens the health of someone especially minors and even expose them to habits that’s not worth emulating especially at such tender age, it shouldn’t be even debatable at all.