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Originally Posted by GoSharks
Yeah, but this is a false analogy. Your father did this with the intent to put you off of smoking (funny, my dad did exactly the same thing with the same result!). I'm fairly certain if you had come back and said you liked it he would not have gone out and bought you a carton. Giving you an experience in the hopes of helping shape you is good parenting...but not all experiences are; if he had offered you a hit off of his crack pipe, it would be child abuse. Everything in perspective.
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Oh true, but, if he'd made the cigarette forbidden, like many are talking about doing with books that don't fit their values or beliefs, there also might have been a considerably different outcome.