My mother and stepdad (who I lived with) never smoked. Well, I've caught my mom smoking on occasion, but only in "social" situations (at a wedding, or at a 4th of July party, et cetera).
My father and stepmother, on the other hand, did, and still do, quite often. I used to go stay with them every other weekend, and my grandpa (father's father) always picked me up - he would always smoke in the car on the 45-minute drive there, with the window open maybe an inch. When I was building a model train set as a kid, I had a model factory thing, and he would blow cigarette smoke in the smoke-stacks to make it look more "realistic" (yes, my grandpa, father, and stepmom smoked in the house all the time, and I think they still do).
My other grandpa (mother's father) smoked regularly, too, also indoors, and also when I was around, as did his wife (my stepgrandma?). They, however, no longer smoke indoors, and don't usually smoke around us kids.
It always surprises me to hear people say that they don't smoke because their parents/grandparents/whatever smoked around them, because that was always one of the reasons I never had any problem with it. I was used to the smell, the feeling of smoke in my lungs, all that stuff from a very young age.
The first time I smoked anything, it was pot, from a joint. I smoked it like I imagined one would, from witnessing my family members smoking cigarettes for sixteen years. I smoked that joint properly without anyone having to explain to me how it was done, I got super high, and I never coughed once. Everyone that was with me was either very impressed, or didn't believe that I'd never smoked before.
The next year, when I started smoking cigarettes, I somehow just knew how to inhale tobacco smoke properly (as anyone who does both knows, hitting a joint and smoking a square require different types of inhalation) without being taught, and I never coughed from that, either.
Both of these things I attribute to my father, stepmom, and various grandparents smoking around me as often as they did.
(In case anyone was wondering from reading this post, pot is not included in my "quitting smoking" thing. They're two entirely different things. Besides, if I ever get up to smoking 20 joints a day, I'll quit that, too.)
