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Originally Posted by SeeBass
As a child of the 70's my parents both smoked.
My dad 2 1/2 packs a day mom 1 1/2 a day. When my dad drove he would light the one that was ending with the one he was starting.
They smoked non stop in the car and never cracked a window cause mom never liked the breeze. We drove a lot as child, went into the city for a three hour drive almost every weekend.
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My parents weren't quite that bad. They used to smoke in the car with the window cracked, but it used to mostly result in ashes being blown back into my face while I was sitting in the back seat.
I grew up with shortness of breath, which I thought was totally normal. In school, you could always tell the kids whose parents smoked because they were always the ones out of breath when playing sports. I started smoking as a teen and then quit when I was around 27 and a few months after quitting, it was the first time in my life that I realized what it felt like to actually be able to breath without wheezing.
Parents who smoke inside around their kids don't realize the disadvantage they are putting them in. Granted, most of them probably grew up around it, then started smoking at a young age, so they have no baseline reference.