[PallMallMan2]

Are children whose parent(s) smoke more likely to pick up the habit of smoking?

[kingskools23]

if your kids are over 18 i would let them smoke cuz at that age they can make there own chooses but thats just me i dont know

[kingskools23]

i give good advice on things like that one thing i am good at doing lol

[the iron horse]

We have two sons.

Age 32 and 28.

They are both nonsmokers.

[motleydan1]

I know my 14 yr old daughter hates it as well as my 8 yr old son.I will strongly discourage them from smoking.Its not a good thing to do but I enjoy it.Once they are 18 it will be their choice.

[StoneMonkey]

I don't really think so overall. I think peers are more likely to have an influence on starting to smoke as most kids, when they become teens, think their parents are lame and dull and so would be unlikely to want to mimic the parents behavior.

I dated someone who smoked and started lighting his and then went on to become a smoker myself. Don't think my parents, who were both smokers, had much of any influence as to my starting to smoke. I have brothers and sisters who smoke and one brother had 4 kids ( 2 girls and 2 boys ) but only one of his children became a smoker. Another brother had 3 sons, only one who smokes. I had a sister who smoked ( and so did her husband ) and only one of their daughters ( out of 2 sons and a duaghter she had ) ever smoked. I have another sister who smokes and had two sons, neiher of whom have ever smoked. ( All of the "children" mentioned above are now adults, btw )

I had two sons, and unforunately, both of them now smoke and have since they were around 16 ( snuck and smoked then, but admitted to it when they turned 18 ). However, both of them never told me they hated the way their clothes smelled while growing up and hated that I smoked, until just recently. Both of them say my smoking had no influence on either of them starting to smoke themselves. They both say that peer pressure ( many of their freinds snuck and smoked in high school ) and a desire to experiment with anything "adult" and to look and seem "with it" and cool was what led them both to start smoking.

My older son was diagnosed with ODD ( Oppositional Defiance Disorder ) which makes one likely to rebel and do anything they are told they can't or shouldn't. He feels it's part of his make-up and starting to smoke was just another manifestation of the syndrome.