NYE cigar
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Anonymous
| DSs, 17, will be home this NYE with just one friend each. Every year DH celebrates with a cigar (usually at our friends’ house with the guys). The boys want to join him since they’re all at home - would you allow this? |
Anonymous
| No way. Ca teen will not regulate a cigar to once per year. |
Anonymous
| 17? I’d be completely ok with that. |
Anonymous
| One cigar at New Years won't hurt him. |
Anonymous
Not unless I knew the other parents were OK with it. |
Anonymous
| no way. that’s a dirty habit your DH should keep to himself, unless you want a vaping teen on your hands. plus one cigar stinks like *ss - you really want 3 at once? they’re intolerable even outside. |
Anonymous
| While I love cigars I will confess I do believe it is a “gateway” drug and one reason I have had a lifelong struggle with nicotine. Once a teen realizes the perceived benefit of nicotine (the sharpening of focus and clarity, alleviation of anxiety) they will be more apt to pick up a cigarette just this once on the side. Next thing you know you can pull a whole pack on an all nighter doing calculus. The white collar nicotine addicts are real. I sometimes wish I hadn’t been introduced. |
Anonymous
| Nicotine is bad. Don't glamorize it. This coming from a former smoker that started at 18 because it was cool. |
Anonymous
Who’s glamorizing it here? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
um the dad when he makes it the centerpiece of a holiday celebration |
Anonymous
| When did people lose their sense of perspective and fun? It’s New Year’s Eve, it’s a cigar and the kid is 17. It’s fine. |
Anonymous
| Your kid, your rules (I wouldn’t do it), but if you allowed my child (the “friend”), I’d be absolutely livid. So I think it’s an easier line to just say “not until you are 18.” |
Anonymous
cancer isn’t fun, yo |
Anonymous
| No. But I also wouldn't marry someone dumb enough to smoke either. |