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07th Jul 2016

This Irish teen found the perfect way to stop his parents knowing he smokes

Need a sly fag? Here's a solution

Rebecca Keane

There’s nothing worse than wanting a cigarette but not being able to smoke.

Whether you’re in a hospital, a church, hanging around your parents who are still blissfully unaware of your bad habit, or just trying to quit, not being able to have a quick fag is a painful feeling.

Many smokers growing up had our own methods to prevent our families from discovering we smoke, whether it be smoking out the bedroom window, nipping out ‘to the shops’ or waiting until everyone’s asleep to smoke out the back garden – but even with these careful procedures many of us were rumbled.

My mum had a particularly annoying habit of routinely smelling my fingers or breath after I came home, which always scared the living daylights out of me.

But one clever Dublin boy has had the genius idea to prevent smelly post-smoke fingers.

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Jack Fullam found a foolproof way to smoke without parents or anyone else detecting the smell, and I am currently RAGING I didn’t think of it first.

Jack told us of how he conceived the idea of wearing half a glove to smoke away – but without the smell. “During one of my many drift offs I just got the eureka moment,” he said. “There’s a big thing every night where they smell my hands and breath.”

He explained how the only downside to the accessory was wearing it the wrong way round: “The first time there was no smell but the second time I wreaked of fags because I wore it inside out. I’ll have to be careful next time”

And the best part is, it actually works!

Not only is the two-fingered smoke glove practical but it almost looks stylish? Is anyone else picking up Zayn-Met Gala 2016 vibes?

<> at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.