should you let your children smoke?

okocha wrote:You can go on and on about lung cancer without much reaction from teenage boys who see it as something which might possibly affect them many years into the future........but if you correctly inform them that cigarettes stunt penile growth, the litter bins immediately become overflowing with half-empty packets of fags! Tell your son(s) and watch the horrified reaction first-hand!!

Reebok Trotter wrote:My son doesn't smoke and nor do any of his mates. They see it as a disgusting habit because it was drummed into them at school. When I was a teenager everybody seemed to smoke. My dad used to send me to the corner shop to get him 10 Park Drive. He gave up smoking in his seventies but died of lung cancer just short of his 82nd  birthday. My mother will be 80 next year and has never smoked. I can't help thinking if he hadn't smoked he would still be around today to keep her company in her twilight years.

boltonbonce wrote:Still don't understand why youngsters don't smoke pipes. Much safer than cigs,with the added bonus that you appear more thoughtful and intelligent.
They can still hang about round the corner shop,asking complete strangers to "get me an ounce of Black Shag mate?"
Pipe smoking is simply dying out.

y2johnny wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:Still don't understand why youngsters don't smoke pipes. Much safer than cigs,with the added bonus that you appear more thoughtful and intelligent.
They can still hang about round the corner shop,asking complete strangers to "get me an ounce of Black Shag mate?"
Pipe smoking is simply dying out.

I think youngsters asking for black shag may lead to a whole other problem bonce

boltonbonce wrote:

y2johnny wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:Still don't understand why youngsters don't smoke pipes. Much safer than cigs,with the added bonus that you appear more thoughtful and intelligent.
They can still hang about round the corner shop,asking complete strangers to "get me an ounce of Black Shag mate?"
Pipe smoking is simply dying out.

I think youngsters asking for black shag may lead to a whole other problem bonce

OK. Three Nuns.

No problems there.

boltonbonce wrote:My Dad smoked Three Nuns.

Reebok Trotter wrote:My dad smoked a pipe at one time. St Bruno and Condor were his choice of Tobacco but occasionally he would go into that tobacconist on Bradshawgate and order two ounces of twist?