When and How did you start smoking analogs?

[Shortstuff116]

For the sake of conversation and out of general curiosity, when and how did you start smoking analogs? When I ask "how" what I mean is what caused you to start?

For me I never had the desire to smoke at a young age. At the age of 17 (back in 1972) when smoking really wasn't an issue like it is today I got my first car, a 1964 Chevy Impala. Being the first in my group of friends in the neighborhood to get a car, I elected to pick a few of them up for school every day instead of them taking the bus. As the days got colder here in New England the car windows pretty much stayed closed and 2 of the 3 I picked up smoked Marlboro. I can honestly say that it didn't take long for me to get addicted to the second-hand smoke inside my own car everyday and that's what I believe got me hooked.

36 years later I got my first PV (40 days ago) and haven't touched an analog since my very first vape.

And you?

[scott58]

Military. "If you got'em light'em up. If not keep working." July in Texas. Everyone was smoking by the end of basic training. That was 32 years ago. My last analog was also with my first vape.

[evertroy]

I was 12 and I stole one from my dad out of curiosity.

[RedRamen]

I was 17, and I tried my friend's brother's Marlboro to prove to him that I wouldn't get addicted... Look how much good that did

[d4rk3]

The now ex-girlfriend and 2 other friends used to give me rides home from school. They got high and smoked cigs. I tried and loved both.

I just turned 16.

[Coupon master]

I was just 6 when i tsated the flavour of smoke .i was too young to handle the smoke .......

[optsmk]

I was probably 17 the first time I had an analog. I was into sports in high school and some of college, so I really didn't smoke a lot. But after I dropped out of college when I was about 20 I really started smoking everyday.

[Harlequin]

I remember being curious about smoking when I was a kid, and had my first cigarette when I was 15. I was an athlete and felt incredibly guilty about smoking, but I didn't do any other drugs or even drink alcohol all through my teen years. Didn't really get hooked until I was about 20, and I stayed a more-or-less "closeted smoker" for a very long time.

[420Smiles]

I first snuck one at around 10, but it wasn't an everyday thing til like 8th grade, so I guess 12-13.

[optsmk]

I remember being curious about smoking when I was a kid, and had my first cigarette when I was 15. I was an athlete and felt incredibly guilty about smoking, but I didn't do any other drugs or even drink alcohol all through my teen years. Didn't really get hooked until I was about 20, and I stayed a more-or-less "closeted smoker" for a very long time.

Haha, that sounds just like me. Even though I loved the taste of analogs, it was the guilt of not being able to perform in sports that kept me off of them.