Agreed. My mom was a life-long drug addict, and I was raised by my father and at times in foster care with my mother's brother. Before she got hooked on oxy i

Agreed. My mom was a life-long drug addict, and I was raised by my father and at times in foster care with my mother's brother. Before she got hooked on oxy in 1999, she was just a typical drug addict (coke, crack, tons of alcohol) who would get clean (usually substituting fundamentalist Christianity for her drugs) and chain smoke cigarettes at twice the rate she usually did. After the oxy, there was never any attempts to get clean, and she became a full-on opiate addict with the rewired brain and all of that. When she OD'd in 2015, she was already suffering from emphysema. The smells of stale cigarettes bring back horrible memories for me. She always reeked of them, and even at 6 when we were on supervised visits at her house, I always sensed that the cigarettes were a slow suicide. She used to accidentally burn my hand all the time when she'd be smoking and holding my hand when she'd take me on a walk. I'm really sorry for you to have to watch your father follow your mom. It's terrible to think about. My dad enjoys the occasional pipe, and pipe tobacco never made me think of that nasty-ass death smell of stale cigarettes.