At what age did you start smoking....

[gunbunny]

We had tobacco base when I was a kid on the farm. I grew up in the Ohio River Valley. We grew burly or white tobacco here. If you had tobacco base, you didn't get to play with Hot Wheels or Tonka trucks. Cows came 1st, tobacco second. When the work was done, and you weren't tired, then you got to play.
Had to get out there and plant that crap. Top and sucker it a couple times a season. If you found hornworms, you was out there picking them off.
If you ever cut and hung tobacco, then you know what that is. Then it has to come back down to be bailed and taken to auction.
In the end, you might get a new pair of gym shoes for your efforts.
I learned to hate tobacco with a passion.
The way I figure it, tobacco did it's part in killing me.
I never smoked it, never will. I never saw the sense in inhaling smoke. That just always looked stupid to me. I remember putting a couple leaves in my mouth, like the old men did, when I was a kid. It burned my mouth. That was all I needed.
If you smoke, stop. Don't let the Duke family and a stinky plant beat you.

 

[FISHYPETE]

Started after sex first time. Kidding, never started

 

[missing linc]

Today, my friends at work's habit, at $11/pack, 3 packs/day, is over $12,000/year, JUST for cigarettes. I quit when my smokes (the cheap GPC replacement for Marlboro red) went from $8 to $12/carton. Somewhere around $20/week saved every week, (at the time!) when I quit.

When I quit they were about $5.25 for a pack of 25. My then wife also quit at the same time, we each smoked about a pack a day, but she went on the patch for a couple months, I tried it for 2 days and decided I didn't need it. Started saving $50.00 a week immediately after, had almost 2 grand saved in just a few months.

 

[lemondana]

I always remember the old WW2 movies, where the guy got wounded and the medic would stick a lit smoke in his mouth. I wouldn't doubt that more WW2 vets died from lung cancer that got killed in the war. Sad

 

[krazykuda]

I was talking to this woman in a bar and she asked me if I smoked after sex...

I said, "I don't know, I've never looked"...

 

[JDMopar]

My parents both smoked when I was growing up. I hated the smell, and rode with my head out the car window like a dog. Never started because of that. I was 15 when my Dad died, and 24 when my Mom died. I'm 67 now.

 

[RustyRatRod]

We had tobacco base when I was a kid on the farm. I grew up in the Ohio River Valley. We grew burly or white tobacco here. If you had tobacco base, you didn't get to play with Hot Wheels or Tonka trucks. Cows came 1st, tobacco second. When the work was done, and you weren't tired, then you got to play.
Had to get out there and plant that crap. Top and sucker it a couple times a season. If you found hornworms, you was out there picking them off.
If you ever cut and hung tobacco, then you know what that is. Then it has to come back down to be bailed and taken to auction.
In the end, you might get a new pair of gym shoes for your efforts.
I learned to hate tobacco with a passion.
The way I figure it, tobacco did it's part in killing me.
I never smoked it, never will. I never saw the sense in inhaling smoke. That just always looked stupid to me. I remember putting a couple leaves in my mouth, like the old men did, when I was a kid. It burned my mouth. That was all I needed.
If you smoke, stop. Don't let the Duke family and a stinky plant beat you.

Well, you know what smoke is, right? Everything is classified as a solid, liquid or gas. Our lungs are only designed to breathe gasses that support our lives. Smoke is a solid. Our lungs were never designed for THAT.

 

[44070dart]

17 to 37, pack a day. Quit because the last couple of the night bothered my throat. I enjoyed smoking not a habit. Put that last one out, and never picked one up again.

 

[diymirage]

I started dabbling with it at 14, by 16 I was hooked
No idea how many packs a day since I rolled my own (pro tip, I knew if I was too drunk to roll a smoke it was time to stop drinking)

Quiet when I moved to the US, simply not having smokers around me in my inner circle made it a lot less hard
(I was 21 when I moved here)

 

[Righty Tighty]

Had my very first puff at age 6 and would sneak a cigarette from my dad every now and then. Became a regular smoker mid-teens and quit in 1999 when I was 22. Never looked back.

Well, you know what smoke is, right? Everything is classified as a solid, liquid or gas. Our lungs are only designed to breathe gasses that support our lives. Smoke is a solid. Our lungs were never designed for THAT.

Yep, even smoking cannabis, the "miracle plant," is bad for you.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Had my very first puff at age 6 and would sneak a cigarette from my dad every now and then. Became a regular smoker mid-teens and quit in 1999 when I was 22. Never looked back.

Yep, even smoking cannabis, the "miracle plant," is bad for you.

While I agree 100% with that, it's nowhere near as bad as smoking factory made cigs. We'll never know the real chemical list in them. But either is bad.

 

[DartGTDan]

I started around 18 (it was the "cool" thing to do) and quit when I was about 24. It's been 40 years since I quit!

 

[Righty Tighty]

While I agree 100% with that, it's nowhere near as bad as smoking factory made cigs. We'll never know the real chemical list in them. But either is bad.

Oh absolutely. I'm a big advocate for cannabis, it's just interesting that a lot of people seem to forget that it's still smoke going into your lungs.

Those factory smokes are on a completely different level though.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Oh absolutely. I'm a big advocate for cannabis, it's just interesting that a lot of people seem to forget that it's still smoke going into your lungs.

Those factory smokes are on a completely different level though.

I have a friend that smokes cigs.....but he grows and rolls his own. I agree about cannabis, even though I haven't partaken in over 30 years. It's hard to turn your back on all of the medical evidence that points to so many benefits. Look what it does for chemo patients, for example.

 

[Vaanth]

In 1963, when I was five years old, my cousins (six, eight, and ten years old) convinced me to swipe a full carton of Viceroy cigarettes from my parents. We went in the woods, sat down, and smoked the entire carton.
That was enough for me for a lifetime...

 

[DumpsterFire]

Oh absolutely. I'm a big advocate for cannabis, it's just interesting that a lot of people seem to forget that it's still smoke going into your lungs.

Those factory smokes are on a completely different level though.

Gotta boof it for saftey

 

[Righty Tighty]

Gotta boof it for saftey

Haha, I had to google that...

 

[ProjectBazza]

Haha, I had to google that...

So did I, and....

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