Father teaches daughter a lesson about facebook...

[rbnyc]

174. OK

Maybe he doesn't care if she smokes; he doesn't seem like a very good dad.

Your comment about missing smoking in the movies and leaving it to parents to educate about the dangers of smoking seems a little strange in the context of this conversation.

Maybe I am one of those annoying ex-smokers who has an inflated reaction to smoking since I quit. But even when I was smoker, I knew it was a really bad choice and I knew I would have to quit someday. I actually promised myself I would quit by the time I was 30, and I did. That was 14 years ago.

I'm glad, especially as a parent, that smoking is less pervasive in our culture now. And when my father comes to visit, he may not smoke in our house, so that my son doesn’t see him lighting up every tem minutes, so that we don’t have to breathe it and so everything doesn’t stink. (When we go to visit him however, he gets to model addictive behavior for my son, we all breathe it, and everything stinks.)