A new study has found that parents who enforce a no smoking ban in their house have teens who are less lilkely to become smokers or even experiment with cigarettes.  Teens who grow up with smoking bans tend not to find smoking as a norm or socially acceptable.  Teens who allowed smoking at home also tended to think a higher percentage of adults in the community smoked, compared to teens with household bans.  Smoking bans actually decrease the incidence of smoking by half.  These bans send a strong message to teens that it's not OK to smoke, and in the face of so many other external factors that may influence teens to smoke -- peers, advertising -- a home smoking policy is one thing that parents can control to some extent.

This makes a lot of sense.   I sort of experimented with cigarettes as a teenager and since no one smoked in my family and my mom hated cigarettes, it didn't take much to convince me not to smoke.  I would've had a hard time listening to my parents if they were smokers themselves.

A friend of mine gets his cigarettes from his mom.  They buy cigarettes in bulk from New York because I guess it's cheaper that way.. anyway I think that's pretty ridiculous to be your own kid's main supplyer. I've tried to talk to him about smoking and he wasn't having it.

This actually is very true. My parents dont allow smoking in the house and our house has never ever smelt like smoke. But when someone who does smoke walks in you could smell it right away since smoke has never entered it. I dont smoke and never even think about starting or even smoking just one. However my cousin is opposite. Her mom and dad smoke indoors and she is now 18 and already smokes almost a pack a day. I think smoking is a really ugly habit.