what age would you let your daughter start smoking cigarettes?

Answer 1

I would not allow it at any age. Of course, once she's 18 she can do what she likes; I will no longer be able to veto her choices, but I will still disapprove loudly.

Answer 2

Kids will be kids and they will do it no matter what...I started smoking at a very young age, and I wish now I would have never started. Back then it was cool and everybody was doing it..If I knew what I know now back then I would have never ever would have started smoking..I started cause it was the in thing and everybody was doing it..That is one thing I have told all of my kids don't smoke its not good for you at all..I have been trying to quit and I'm down to less than a half a pack a day...Which is good seening how I was smoking one sometimes two packs a day...(1)Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School and Norris Cotton Cancer Center found children aged 10 to 14 were more likely to try cigarettes if they saw a large amount of smoking in movies, regardless of whether their parents or friends smoked. (2)In fact, new research links teen girls' smoking to the onset of anxiety disorders and sudden, unprovoked panic attacks when they reach their 20s and 30s. Teens who smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day were 15 times as likely to develop panic disorders during early adulthood when compared with nonsmokers, according to their research. "Those who smoked daily -- but less than a pack a day -- were 2.5 times more likely to develop panic disorder or other severe anxiety disorders,""The most important lesson is the longer you smoke, the harder it's going to be to quit. If a no-smoking program for teenagers is offered in your community, see a school nurse or your own personal doctor for help." So please sit and talk to your daughter get some info books about kids and smoking, don't let her....

Answer 3

Please listen up... my mom, started young smoking cigs. She has recently been diagnosed with a disease no one in the family has ever heard of. It is caused by smoking, among other things but the other things she has never done. One of the symptoms is itching after a shower or bath. The first time it happened she came out of the bathroom slapping her skin and crying... she said it felt like fire ants biting every inch of her body. This same thing happened for about 7 years. For years she has been tossed from dr to dr while juggling medications. She was even diagnosed as being allergic to water. but why could she drink it??? Finally when her company changed insurance carriers she was forced to see a new doctor that accepted her new insurance. The dr ran so many tests on her and retested... all were conclusive that she has this disease. Her bone marrow is making too many red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets... the effect of all that stuff in her veins is that her blood is thick like molases and has been told by several drs that she is dangerously close to stroke because it is so much strain on her heart to pump that thick blood through her veins. There is treatment, but no cure. Every week now she has to go to a lab and have a pint of blood removed until it is thinner... if that doesnt happen she will have to have a marrow transplant and chemo. Good news is she no longer has the itching. For the first time in over 7 years she can take a bath every day without pain. It was getting so bad that she would sit and just rock in her chair for up to 30 minutes until it subsided. But now... they are still using the largest needle to remove the blood because it wont go through a small one... the larger the needle, the more it hurts. I tell you all of this to get the word out... smoking causes more things than just emphazema ... is that the correct spelling??? and that my mom has at the most, 20 years to live... i know that sounds great, but if they cant get her blood to thin out even after chemo... she would have 1 year. Smoking is not beneficial to anyone no matter what age they are.

Answer 4

Never. Don't even entertain the thought. As a smoker who is desperately trying to quit (yet again for the umpteenth time at the age of 50), smoking is an unnecessary and dangerous addiction. I WISH I had grown up in a smoke free household, but I didn't, but if I did I would never have started this addictive battle. I wish my parents had not encouraged me to smoke by virtue of their own actions. They puffed and puffed away, as did my aunts and uncles, since I was small. Despite the fact that my mother died at the age of 52 when I was 19 years old and my dad died from heart disease at 66 when I was 24, I am still transfixed by the addiction. I KNOW I am screwing up my health, but the addictive components of nicotine call to me, so to avoid your daughter becoming like someone like me, don't get her started. You will save her life.

Answer 5

Well, in the U.S. it's illegal for people under the age of 18 to smoke. Cashiers can get fired and arrested for selling to minors, and I'm sure that a parent could get in equal trouble for allowing it. I wouldn't ever let my daughter smoke cigarettes, but I'm not a smoker myself. You may be, and you might not see any problems with smoking.

Answer 6

When I was about 12-13 years old, I asked my mom if I could try a cigarette. I didn't think AT ALL, that she would say yes.
But she did. So I tried it. And I didn't like it. Today I am 26 and a non-smoker. But what if my mother would have said "NO"? Than probably I would have done it behind her back, because I was always doing the opposite of what she said. And maybe I would be a smoker today.

Answer 7

talk to her about it.
back in high school I was running(cross country, track) and I would sneak smokes in just because I didnt want to let my parents down. I was falling under the influence.
You should never allow her to smoke, until she is old enough to purchase them herself.
for now though if she is smoking and you want to make sure she is safe with it...or whatever...this is what you should do:
your daughter wants to smoke just to look cool in front of friends? either way you should come to an agreement with her that only at home(as an example) she can smoke.
that way she isnt out with friends getting cigarettes, and getting into possibly a bad crowd.
buy a pack of smokes, hold onto them and give her a few to smoke whenever she needs them(whenever she asks for them)
you have control. and just let her know that its okay, you love her no matter what. But she will pay you back when she gets old enough.
This also works for alcohol too.

Answer 8

I'd not let her smoke in my presence at any age and would strongly discourage her from ever smoking.

The effect on health is just too severe for me to want anyone I love take the risk.

Answer 9

I would never LET her start smoking. Its a terrible habit that shouldnt be started in the first place. She may go behind your back and smoke away from home, but I still would give her the ok to do it.

Answer 10

Don't! Use scare tactics, if needed! Show her pictures of what happens to you when you smoke. If you have had someone in your family die of smoking or secondhand smoke, let her know. She will then probably back off of the idea. If she is getting a lot of pressure from her friends, tell her that she is free to use you as an excuse, "My dad would so kill me if I smoked", for example.

Answer 11

Absolutely 'NEVER'. It is a bad thing to start on those filthy things. There are better things in life than ruining ones health with smoking.