Yes and no.

I started smoking as a freshman in college. At semester break my Mom came to ferry me home, a five hour drive. I fretted about how to break the news that I'd gone over to the dark side. Finally I pulled out my pack of Salems (take a puff, it's springtime!) and casually offered her one before I lit up. She calmly declined.

A few minutes later she pulled over at a gas station and came back out with a box of Marlboros.

"i don't like menthol," she said.

My jaw never quite properly re-hinged.

Yes, and she died from lung cancer

My mom didn't at all but my dad smoked if he drank beer. He never smoked in the house.

Not anymore she was a social smoker that would smoke at parties she hosted. I don't think she inhaled.

Neither of my parents smoked.

Back in the 1950's, it was expected that even nonsmokers would allow guests to smoke.

So we had ashtrays all around the house. I grew up thinking that ashtrays were invented as a place to put loose change, stray buttons, paper clips, etc.

When certain friends were coming to visit, my father would say, "Time to empty the ashtrays!"

Yes, my whole childhood pretty much aside from a few times she tried to 'quit'. She died of cancer probably not related but you never know.

I had teacher in elementary school accuse me of smoking because you could smell it on my clothes. It was pretty upsetting and embarrassing.

No, she never has.

Nope, neither parents did, but my oldest brother and some of my uncles and cousins did so I've been around it.

{@davidscottbianchet] as a kid rarely far as i can recall 😆having four of us that was very surprising lol

No. Her uncles made her roll cigarettes for them when she was a kid, and she hated the smell.

My mother was a chain smoker. She would develop a cough and hack day and night sometimes.

she quits all the time, so i'm not sure of her status moment by moment

Mine didn't. My wife's did, and it ended up killing her.

She tried it, didn't like it, and never smoked.

Yeah but that's not quite as bad as the meth

Both my parents smoked.

Yes, for 50+ years or more.

No way my mom would never

No, never has.

Nope. Dad quit

No. My father did, but he quit when he was about 40 and has never gone back. He’s 90 now.

Yes

Yes

Yup

No

Nah. My dad did though.

She did...A looong time ago.