Posted by Randall on 10/18/2009, 3:07 pm
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Lauren's post below got me thinking about something I've always been curious about. Other than your Mothers, who were the first older women smokers who found out that you were smoking? It seems to me that at some point, young women who start smoking go through a transition from being seen as "naughty" girls who are illicitly smoking into "women" who smoke and just happen to be young. I'm betting that for a lot of women, this happens when young women start working, where they encounter other female coworkers who smoke, and who might be old enough to be their mothers ... say, 20 or more years older. And, my sense is that in other settings, they might be critical or even scandalized by seeing a "girl" smoking, but that in the workplace, since coworkers are generally treated as adults regardless of age, a young woman is more likely to be easily accepted by older women who also smoke. Does this seem consistent with your experiences? Two other questions:
1) Has anyone started smoking WHILE in a job, and get comments from older woman coworkers who smoke, and
2) Has anyone had any interesting conversations with older women coworkers who smoke when they first found out you were a smoker?
I've thought about this because over the years I've seen many female coworkers of different generations smoking together on smoke breaks outside of malls, and in restaurants and bars ... especially when smoking was still allowed in them. It has always seemed that these women, so far apart in age, have had a mutual acceptance over smoking that might be different in a different setting.
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