[Quiet Man Cometh]

You know I've never thought about it? My dad smoked, not sure how often when I was little. It bugs me now that I'm aware of what it does but that's more because I don't like cigarettes in general, and I can always move myself somewhere else. I think my dad and step mom are quitting now, because of my step-sister's new kid.

Even though I know it's considred bad to expose a child to cigarette smoke, it never occured to me to gripe at my dad about it. I'm an 80's kid though, and not sure what the attitude was towards smoking at the time.

I know that if I spend a lot of time around smokers (more than a few days) I will develop a phelgmy cough, but that will leave once I leave the environment and to my knowledge I have no lung damage from it.

I would suggest though, that maybe you have a "smoker's jacket" that you can wear over your clothes when you smoke, so that you can take it off and have your normal clothes not smelling so much when you go back inside. Smoke really clings! I never notice how much it sticks to my own clothes until I get back down here in no-smoking land and open my suitcase.