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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The biggest thing is that it is sending a bad message to my kids, especially my 12 year old son (who is starting to be too old to watch everything he does), that smoking is fine, and even normal. I grew up, went to college, and lived for a while in Philadelphia, and one of the reasons I moved away (to DC) was that Philly was just full of smokers. That is not the way I want to live, and it is especially not the way I want to raise my kids. [/quote] This is surely not the first time he has been exposed to people who do things you disapprove of, and will certainly not be the last. Trying to remove the exposure is a strategy that will not work. Talking to him about the thing (in this case, why smoking is bad) is a strategy that might work. (I would recommend, also, emphasizing that while smoking is bad, that does not mean that smokers are bad people.)[/quote]
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