Ok this is not a blog against smokers.
Go for it.
In fact, my brother and I grew up with the burning sting of log cabin tobacco in our eyes after sitting down to innocently watch A Country Practice on our lounge room floor almost every Sunday night.
We also sat in the back of his EJ (unbuckled of course) whilst he drank drove (OK back then) in a cloud of his unfiltered tobacco smoke.
All, I used to think, OK.
This however is a rant against people smoking around children.
It is not OK to smoke whilst they sit in the backseat of your shitty Commodore Sedan and blacken their lungs.
It is not OK to smoke at the school gate and offer a welcoming plume of poison to the kids going in the gates each day.
Frankly It is not OK to smoke anywhere where little kids have no say in the matter. It is not 1984 and you ignorant dipshits (no other adjective comes to mind - sorry) need to stop and more importantly, it needs to be enforced.
Plus, do not flick your dirty cigarette butt onto the ground, you dirty pigs.
Lastly, again, we all have our vices and I am the first to admit I have many. This is a blog about changing the use of cigarettes around little ones. Please contribute.
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Having spent many a car trip as a child literally trying to hold my breath for the duration of each adult's cigarette, I've always been a committed non-smoker.
But like you, I try to respect people's right to have a vice (lord knows I have a few) but there's nothing that makes me angrier than seeing a parent smoking in a car with all the windows closed.
I don't make my children drink alcohol or eat their body weight in Lindt chocolate balls or obsessively check their blog stats and email every. five. minutes.
So don't push your vice on your child, you selfish git. There, I said it.
I'm with you on this one, Bern Morley.
Well, yes, now that you mention it, I also don't push large packs of Lime and Black pepper Red rocks down my kids throats, so, good point ;)
Couldn't agree with you more!
Cough cough, not so conspicuously, is what my children and I do as we walk past people who are smoking. I feel really upset when I see a Mum outside a shopping centre smoking her heart out with a toddler sitting in the stroller. What choice does that child have?
I concur, this one really gets up my nose too (pun intended).
Well im a smoker, i dont have kids, but all my friends and family do, and i can tell you this. i wont even allow them to witness me smoking outdoors, let alone trapped in a tiny car with me! Its disgusting, and if i did it , i might aswell just hand them over a lit ciggarette and yell " puff away kiddo". Its wrong, unhealthy, and i blame my parents for becoming the smoker i am today.. i swear i was addicted to ciggarettes before i even started.. Kids dont desevre that!
So true, Bern. I smoke, I confess. I only started when I was 18 but hell I know it is *my* vice and should never, ever be anyone else's. I don't even smoke in front of children - mostly for their health but mostly because they all tell me I am going to die.
Kids, they say the darndest things!
And funny, my Dad smoked Log Cabin too! Used to make me grab the wheel of the car when I was four and five while he rolled.
Ah, parental responsibility.
Hey Bern,
I also couldn't agree more - as you know i will be a teacher one day soon and trust me if I am the one greeting the kids that day i will be saying something to anyone that lights up near me or them!
You go girl!
Ah, the flick of the butt on the ground, especially when standing within a few steps of a bin. Grrr.
Nothing, repeat nothing, annoys me more than when butts that are still alight, are flicked out of a moving vehicle. Stink up you're own fucking car!
If I threw my coffee cup out the window, I would expect to be chased down and have it rammed up my ass.
Nice post Bern, allows me another rant, I'm also an experienced passive smoking kid.
Ah Ryan, such a pretty visual, having a cup rammed up your arse. You make me laugh.
Wendy I hope you come and teach at my kids school ;)
Rick, as parents we've done a total 360 on the tales of smoking. I tell mine the ends of their toes will fall off and they won't be able to walk. So far they believe me.
I am struggling to give up the evil evil evil weed. I know it is gross. I will not smoke in front of my kids in a million years. I remember when I had my first, the Early Childhood nurse had to ask several mums in our mother's group not to smoke during out outside meetings. Idiots
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