WOW, I don’t believe in buying them cigarettes. It is a terrible habit, one that is very difficult to break. I refer to them as cancer sticks and I would not help him kill himself. I watched my own child struggle many times over trying to break this habit . B”H he did but when he was very stressed out in the past he would foolishly pick it up again and then stress himself out till he stopped again.
I would say instead “if I didn’t love you as much as I do, I would buy you the cigarettes. But they are a nasty habit. One that can’t be shaken easily and is harmful to you. I can’t contribute to something that can hurt you.”
Cigarettes are a gateway drug. It is the first step into other substances and I am sorry to disagree with here to help, but I do. You do have to draw the line and that is not helping them harm themselves and also not breaking the law. Here in the states you have to be 18 to buy cigarettes and 21 to buy alcohol. Parents do not have to break the law to show that they love their kids. Role modeling that they have to abide by the rules on the other hand and not breaking the law (at any time) shows kids that their parents are not hypocrites.