Which Royals Smoke?

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by crisiñaki

Have you ever heard of "unwilling smokers" that's what those kids are, they get addicted and sick because of the smoke that they unwillingly get when those near them smoke a lot, maybe those kids would start smoking, maybe not, but the point is that those smoking next to them should be aware of the damage they are doing

No they don't all get addicted and sick. I have known 100's who smoke, that are still disgustingly healthy and whose children do and don't smoke and all enjoy good health. I have also known 100's who don't smoke, have never been in contact with smokers, who have constantly been ill and/or died from Cancer.

What I find amazing, is that so many people against smoking will happily have one too many drinks and don't see the harm in that.

It's selfish, it's disgusting, IT'S NOT ROYAL.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Lady Marmalade

Aww..thank you. :)

You know I do enjoy our polite bantering on certain subjects...

I agree, Smoking in front of your children will not necessarily make them smokers. Kids often try smoking because they want to or because of peer pressure.

What is Caroline going to do? Lock Andrea in his room till he stops?

So do I:)

Pressure won't work with most people and those that are so against smoking, are also against saying no to children anyway.

[bonnita]

does any one know if Kate Middleton smokes?

[Arabic Princess]

From Deadline photo press
Letizia:

[Lady Marmalade]

How is smoking selfish?????

I would think expecting the public to pay for royal events through taxes when they may not agree with having a royal family is selfish....

Oh my Lord!!!

Letizia smoking!! Quick, let's banish her to the dungeon!!!!

Smoking is not royal....hmm....they have been doing it...MALE and FEMALE for generations..

I agree with Skydragon..I know many couples who smoke and who have children and their children have not smoked ,nor have any desire, to smoke.

I am a non-smoker who has never tried and I just believe there are more important things to worry about.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Lady Marmalade

How is smoking selfish?????

I would think expecting the public to pay for royal events through taxes when they may not agree with having a royal family is selfish....

Oh my Lord!!!

Letizia smoking!! Quick, let's banish her to the dungeon!!!!

I am a non-smoker who has never tried and I just believe there are more important things to worry about

Letizia smoking, shock horror

[Princess_Beatrix]

Originally Posted by Maxie

I'm pretty sure Queen Beatrix smokes (at least she used to smoke). I remember having seen pictures of her smoking several years ago. I tried to find them, but there is nothing to be found... :o

Sometimes I think it would be wiser to open a thread called: which royals don't smoke and haven't done it?

Yes She smokes /smoked(?) .
here's a pic:
http://s2.supload.com/free/smokingdrinking.jpg/view/

I once found it at Google. ^^

[rchainho]

Prince Phillipe smoking. gamma

[carlota]

Originally Posted by prinsesmelanie

I don't have the pictures i saw them in a magazine. But i can find you the picture off her drinking while pregnant if you like to have those. I am sory i can not give you the others.

and how do you know if what she drunk was alcoholic? moreover, showing how healthy and beautiful her daughters are, i bet she didn't do anything 'unhealthy' when she was pregnant.

also, maxima quit smoking long ago. that was reported and discussed at length here.

[lizzie2106]

Do peter and zara phillips smoke?

[maryww]

It's really not fair for those of us in the US to judge the European attitude towards smoking. It is a different culture, after all. As a former smoker, I can see all sides - I quit smoking when I was pregnant with my son, but started again when he was 8 months old. Never in the house, never in the car with him, but basically smokers are so addicted to the nicotine that they will smoke whenever/wherever they can. That being said - which one of us has never done anything stupid that they regretted? (Smoking around a baby, for example.) The only difference is that there were no cameras around to capture the moment for posterity!
Also, the cigarettes in Europe are different than those in the US. Dunhill for example ( a British cigarette) contains just tobacco. None of the chemicals the US puts in their cigarettes.
Hopefully, the royals will quit eventually - it really does mess up your health. I quit at age 31 and already have noticed a great difference in my skin, taste, and I haven't gotten one cold since I quit! Good enough for me!

[Lady Marmalade]

Very well said, maryww...here here!!! :)

[lisamaria]

Originally Posted by gaggleofcrazypeople

I know this has been already asked, but do any Luxembourg royals smoke? They don't really seem like they would, and I've never seen pics of them doing so. But yet again, I didn't think most royals smoked until I read this thread.

This has probably been answered already, but yes, they do. The late GD Josephine-Charlotte died of lung cancer. GD M-T smokes menthols (was told by PdV), and I think Henri smokes cigars, by Davidoff. About the royal kids I don't know, but with a smoking parents, it's likely that they have picked up the habit too.

[paola]

I think that because the greater part of the now reigning Royals in Europe are from the generation that was young around the sixties, many of them will have started smoking. Smoking wasn't seen as such a bad habit as it is become nowadays. And indeed, if your parents smoke, and maybe many others amongst you, it is easier to take over te habit. Just as a social thing, smoking a sigaret and drinking a glas. As many of my friends, family and other acquaintances prove to me every day, once started smoking it is very difficult to quit [and never start again]. I agree smoking is a bad habit so it would be nice if Royals openly quit smoking as a good example, but don't be too harsh on them, they are people with a special position, but they are people. It will last some time before smoking will be an exeption as well among Royals as among us common people.

I for myself I am glad I never started.

[Diogenes]

Originally Posted by maryww

Also, the cigarettes in Europe are different than those in the US. Dunhill for example ( a British cigarette) contains just tobacco. None of the chemicals the US puts in their cigarettes.

I wish! The least adulterated tobaccos you can get in Europe are some of the rolling tobaccos as most of the chemicals in ready-made cigarettes are in the paper.

Young royals will smoke (and not just tobacco...), drink and enjoy all the things that young people of their age do. The next generation of royal rulers will have a better understanding of real people, and if they don't they won't survive

[PreDoc]

< ed quote from deleted post > ...this is a thread about royals who smoke and as a former smoker I can only share that it took an incredible about of self-discipline to quit smoking and for those royals who have quit (I think Fergie and Camilla were smokers) I say kudos to them!

[sinead]

I don't know what the big deal is if they wish to smoke. It is their bodies that they are harming. To them it is probably the only vice that they can have that is legal. I say let them, it may not be ROYAL, but it's human.

[foiegrass]

Originally Posted by truth

I agree .That was so disgusting of maxima . But I don't think that she gave up this habit . I heard that she was smoking and drinking during her both pregnancies and that is the reason why she had problems during her pregnancies.

This is that photo.

not that i have always been a fan of maxima.
but this just TURNS ME OFF.

smoking infront of babies! does she know how harmful it can get

[Lady Marmalade]

We don't know really for sure if she smoked and drank while she was actually pregnant, do we?