Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
There is a correlation between parental smoking and child smoking, just as there is between parental obesity and child obesity, as I posted earlier. The response was a rather fatalistic it's genetic with regards to obesity.

Is smoking perhaps genetic also? People can't have any agency, can they? Then they would have to bear responsibility.

If we want to stop children from smoking, I think the example set by the people they most admire is of much more import than any law. But I guess it's not politically correct to say that.

Same with alcohol consumption. Maybe it's not a breathalyzer in the car that will work, but a parent that doesn't chug down the alcohol.
Hilariously, a moment after I wrote the sentence above about a breathalyzer, I went off to another forum I frequent where one of the posters talks about running her breathalyzer on herself last night. I guess it never occurred to me to buy a breathalyzer but maybe I should. I don’t do much drinking anymore starting with the never ending respiratory infection I had in the year 2019 which caused red wine to taste bad to me.