Inspired by another question on this community about “the first time you drank alcohol”, so I was just feeling like I’m the odd one out here.
I personally have never smoked (neither tobacco nor weed), never drank any alcohol. (Parents also don’t do smoking, or drinking, or gambling so I kinda got lucky with the environment I grew up in, I guess…) Is that unusual? Gen Z btw.
Late Gen X, practically Millennial here.
My parents expressly forbade me from smoking despite being heavy smokers themselves. They also got that same forbidding from their parents, but I guess it didn’t stick with them.
As such, I’m not sure whether that had any influence, or whether it was a natural aversion to the stink and filth of it but I’ve never smoked. Cost would have also been a big factor that prevented me from getting into it. I never had any money as a kid, and also had no smoker friends, let alone generous smoker friends, so getting a hold of anything to smoke was pretty much impossible.
Stealing from my parents might have been an option, I suppose, but I would not have wanted to face their wrath had I done that.
Alcohol and I do not get along. Too many bad experiences have come about through the combination, and it took far too long for me to learn lessons from it.
Even if I was not on medication that came with the heavy suggestion to avoid alcohol, I would not drink.
It’s weird how that the smoking parents forbidding their children to smoke hardly ever works. My mom died of lung cancer, but she quit smoking like 20 years ago. My sister stopped smoking and is now back at full swing and will always ve i smoker i guess. Her boyfriend just always smoked, so that had a big part in it. Their children are now 7 and 5 and something tells me that they will just inherit that curse because giving up is just annoying i guess.