Why did you start using tobacco?
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I smoked another plant source first. Then I started tobacco to smoke when I could get the other.
Of course I tried cigs as an adolescent and a teen, and I hated them. #1 reason: I dated smokers (off and on.) Got started habitually at 26. Even when not dating them, I still just had to smoke after a few beers, which is another vice entirely...
At age 17, I thought I was a MAN and worked hard in the produce department of a grocery store.
Stress actually. I started smoking around 20. I was living on my own working a full time job, and I would just get stressed out and frustrated sometimes. Someone offered me a smoke once and it helped. So I smoked.
Summer of 1977 and I had just turned 18. I was working in a pizza/hoagie joint right at the edge of campus. I think I was the only one that worked there who didn't smoke, including the boss. But despite being a smoker himself, he didn't want anyone smoking in the area where food was being prepared, so everyone that worked there took smoke breaks, except me. One relatively slow day, I left the food prep area to sit at one of the tables with a couple of people who were taking a smoke break. The boss came out and asked "Hey, why are you out here, you don't smoke!" So I walked to the front of the store and put enough change in the cigarette vending machine to buy a pack; I'm pretty sure a pack cost still cost less than $1.00 at that time. It took it and the pack of matches that the machine also provided, went back to the table, lit up, and told the boss, "Now I smoke, and I get to take breaks too, OK?"
I knew it was stupid. I promised myself I'd quit in September when my girlfriend got back to campus (she was 400 miles away for the summer). However, the day she got back, she ended the relationship and left me heartbroken, so I kept right on smoking.
I knew it was stupid. I promised myself I'd quit in September when my girlfriend got back to campus (she was 400 miles away for the summer). However, the day she got back, she ended the relationship and left me heartbroken, so I kept right on smoking.
In my late teens I was using another combustible product and was unable to obtain any. I bummed a smoke off of a friend and that was all she wrote. Of course there was a heavy dose of juvenile stupidity in there too.
Raised by smokers, all my friends smoked. As strange as this sounds now, 30 years later, it seemed "normal"
Nothing better to do in the barracks.. killed the time while playing cards and drinking beer with the barrack mates.
Figured out in basic training that the Drill Instructor smoked and he was always letting the guys in the
unit who smoked have more breaks.
( also found that guys who went to church didn't have to do much for a couple of hours.)
I was always looking to get over in those days.
unit who smoked have more breaks.
( also found that guys who went to church didn't have to do much for a couple of hours.)
I was always looking to get over in those days.
Probably because someone told me not to and said that it was bad while everyone else did it.
I wanted to see what all the hype was about in school. I fell in love with them unfortunately.
All the cool kids were doing it, I wanted to be cool. Unfortunately those kids I thought were cool, were losersss
At 14, curiousity got the best of me and a buddy of mine.
I clearly remember my first cigarette made me dizzy and had I an ounce of common sense it would've been my last one.
I clearly remember my first cigarette made me dizzy and had I an ounce of common sense it would've been my last one.
I was 16, a friend of mine smoked and for some reason he always nagged me to have a puff. finally I got mad and took a puff to shut him up. After that first drag I was hooked.
It was always there. I worked in theatre and everyone smoked. I remember looking backstage at a Chinese acrobat show once and everyone had a smoke going during break. Did pottery too-something about the fire - once again everyone smoked. There was always packs laying around on tables and work surfaces. Lie someone else said above me - it was normal.
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