Smoking in front of your children, right or wrong?

[bakasabo]

You are correct to say that parents need to pay more attention on education and telling more about side effects of smoking instead saying they forbid smoking or smoke secretly. A friend of mine go out for smoke to prevent children see them smoking, but children still know where they go and what they do. Since children see others smoke, see smoking in movies, tv and games, not smoking in front of them is not an effective strategy. After all, if they want, then can smoke when parents are not at home, when they are not at home. Older children ( those whk are almost 18 or look old enough to buy) will always share a cigarette or help younger to buy.

[ruykeri]

That gradual destruction of once health is what most people fails to understand.  Many addicted smokers have been smoking for some years and have not experienced any effect on there health which makes them never for once see anything bad about it even after the world health organisations have made it known to all.
Many children are suffering today because of there early exposure to smoking directly or indirectly and with the nature of children its very easy to learn without even knowing how dangerous it is to there health.
To keep children save i prefer we smoke off there presence because they easily learn from what they see there parents do because of the trust they have in them.

In this case, parents should not only stop smoking in front of them, but they should also quit smoking completely. When children know that their parents smoke, they take it very naturally and do not even think that it can be bad or harmful. Then even if parents forbid it, they do not want to obey it. In this case, some steps can be taken by the society. Even if the government wants, some strict rules can be made. It should be prohibited to sell cigarettes to them unless they are adults. After this, an entire generation can be prevented from smoking.

[WhoYouCantKill]

That's why I believe parent should focus more on educating their children rather than simply avoiding smoking or strictly forbidding them from smoking. When children understand the harm of smoking and why they should avoid it, they're more likely to make the right decision even when influenced by their friend or surrounding.

Parents should limit or preferably avoid, smoking in front of their children. But more importantly, they should spend more time educating them about tobacco.  That's the real key.

Most times people often feel that strict prohibitions are always the best solution to every situation, but that’s not always true because sometimes, education should come before strict prohibitions. The moment that children know about the real dangers of smoking, then parents wouldn’t really have to do much or put that much effort into trying to make their kids not to go towards that route, and perhaps they’ll be able to make more informed decisions concerning that.

[liasbaa]

If a person's smoking causes physical discomfort to others and is likely to cause physical harm, then that person's smoking should be condemned. In many societies, it is seen that the head of the family smokes in front of the whole family, but on the one hand he is harming himself and increasing the health risk of the whole family. Cigarette smoke damages the lungs and causes inflammation.

In many countries, smoking has been banned by law, such as not smoking in public. In situations where there is an excessive gathering of people, not smoking is the work of ideal and conscientious people. It is important to increase personal awareness about smoking.

[Swordsoffreedom]

That's why I believe parent should focus more on educating their children rather than simply avoiding smoking or strictly forbidding them from smoking. When children understand the harm of smoking and why they should avoid it, they're more likely to make the right decision even when influenced by their friend or surrounding.

Parents should limit or preferably avoid, smoking in front of their children. But more importantly, they should spend more time educating them about tobacco.  That's the real key.

Most times people often feel that strict prohibitions are always the best solution to every situation, but that’s not always true because sometimes, education should come before strict prohibitions. The moment that children know about the real dangers of smoking, then parents wouldn’t really have to do much or put that much effort into trying to make their kids not to go towards that route, and perhaps they’ll be able to make more informed decisions concerning that.

Kids are naturally very curious, and the more you completely forbid them from doing something, the more they may want to find out what it is and try it. So, banning things may actually be the worst approach.

For children to grow up properly, they need education, not ban or adult forcing their own way of thinking and standard onto them. This is basic parenting knowledge, but I find it quite strange that many parent don't realize this, even though they were children themselves before becoming parent.

Many parent today just teach their children in a very mechanical way. They never really try to put themselves in their children's shoes and understand what they actually need and want.

[Alonso_]

If a person's smoking causes physical discomfort to others and is likely to cause physical harm, then that person's smoking should be condemned. In many societies, it is seen that the head of the family smokes in front of the whole family, but on the one hand he is harming himself and increasing the health risk of the whole family. Cigarette smoke damages the lungs and causes inflammation.

In many countries, smoking has been banned by law, such as not smoking in public. In situations where there is an excessive gathering of people, not smoking is the work of ideal and conscientious people. It is important to increase personal awareness about smoking.

I feel it’s very wrong to be smoking in the presence of Children, when we say physical discomfort it can actually cause physical discomfort for children and people with some health conditions, I wouldn’t condemn smokers, but I’m going to think that smokers would know how to control themselves and where to smoke, I think it’s very wrong most especially smoking in front of your own children because I don’t know what that would be teaching your children, so I will suggest that if you’re a smoker don’t smoke in front of your children.

Most of the countries banning smoking of tobacco should be Muslim countries, I don’t think that you can smoke drugs in Dubai it’s against the law, I know most countries are prohibiting smoking of drugs, I don’t know if you can smoke cigarettes in Muslim countries, because those things are high prohibited, Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that wouldn’t allow smoking, they don’t allow drinking of alcohol.

[MyWarLord]

This is a very important topic, thank you OP for bringing this here.

Here's what i know, some parents are so addicted to hard drugs that they don't even think when they crave to smoke,
they only think about the feeling that comes with smoking.
Another reason i think they do that is lack of information, especially in developing countries, not everyone is aware of how unhealthy it is to kids.

Normalization causes it too, some of them grew up watching their parent do it, their neighbors, and nearby relatives even. And that's how it became a pattern that no matter how much Knowledge they have on the health risk in doing that, they still see it as normal.