us kids had no say so. it made me want to puke at times, especially in the morning. it gave me headaches.. i never told my dad. i didnt want to hear him say to me, "well, too bad you dont get to tell me what to do" ..
I understand what you're saying, I really do, but did you want the state to tell your dad what to do???
well, i will tell you this. at the end of his life, when lung cancer took him.. he was laying in a diaper, in a morphine stupor trying to take his clothes off in his room cause he was burning up from the inside out.
i wish someone had warned him off cigarettes when he was a young man. that was an agonizing thing to watch and as a man, he certainly wouldnt have liked knowing that we could all see him naked. he was a proud southern man and having us brush his teeth and do other personal hygeine things for him would have been a real humiliation.
i understand what youre saying, but my dad didnt have to die in his early 60s... another cancer, maybe, but lung cancer is mostly preventable if you dont smoke. i do now have seasonal asthma issues and lower lung capacity - although i'm healthy as a horse otherwise, there is no way to know if growing up with a smoker didnt do me some damage.
again, i'm not mad at my dad... i think in this day and age, we know what behaviors are bad for our kids and we shouldnt need the govt to tell us how to behave...