Dad says smoking toddler is ‘addicted’

Which flies in the face of the science involved with nicotine and how it reacts with your brain.

Doctors, pffft. What do they know?

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I think he was talking back in the days when parents would catch their children smoking they would lock them in a closet and make them smoke a pack of cigs. It would get so bad they would never want to smoke again. I heard about that but never knew anyone who did this or had it done to them.

I think he was talking back in the days when parents would catch their children smoking they would lock them in a closet and make them smoke a pack of cigs. It would get so bad they would never want to smoke again. I heard about that but never knew anyone who did this or had it done to them.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying. Any parent taking that approach should be strung up by their toenails or shot, because it flies in the face of medical science.

Smoke a lot of cigarettes = addiction. Make your kid smoke a pack to gross them out? You're actually just getting them addicted. It's a retarded approach that hopefully stays "back in the day" where it belongs.

Maybe Dirtbag was being sarcastic. Hopefully.

Maybe thats how we get kids to stop smoking. Expose them to it before they can develop a taste for it. Kind of like the parent that forces his kid to smoke an entire pack.


That statistic is kind of worthless, 3-15 years old? They should break it up a little like 3-9, 10-15. I would guess US data is pretty close to 25% of kids in that age "range" trying cigarettes.

But you may be onto something, i was in 6th grade (maybe 12?) when i first tried a cig and i am a non smoker.

If I can quit smoking so can a 2 yr. old.

If I can quit smoking so can a 2 yr. old.

are you saying a 2yr old has as much self awareness and will power as you? I don't think this is one of those things that's so easy even a 2yo can do it.

are you saying a 2yr old has as much self awareness and will power as you? I don't think this is one of those things that's so easy even a 2yo can do it.

Yeah, come to think of it, 2 year-olds can't do much of anything.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying. Any parent taking that approach should be strung up by their toenails or shot, because it flies in the face of medical science.

Smoke a lot of cigarettes = addiction. Make your kid smoke a pack to gross them out? You're actually just getting them addicted. It's a retarded approach that hopefully stays "back in the day" where it belongs.

Maybe Dirtbag was being sarcastic. Hopefully.

Don't worry it was. Personally one of the dumbest decisions I ever made was smoking Cigarettes for around 11 months when I was 17. I guess I lucked out since the addiction gene doesn't really run in my family.

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