Smokers

I can understand people who started in say the 1950s or maybe 1960s.... but after that, when it became well known it was pretty bad for you and a dumb thing to do... I just don't understand it. Pretty much every kid at school must have sat through some class where the teacher shows a video of a lung after smoking etc...
 
I have mate (well mate's brother) who started smoking in his late 20s, because he thought it would make him look cool. I'm serious. He was a guitarist in a poor original material pub band and wanted to put the cigarette in his headstock. This was in the early 2000s, a few years before the smoking ban.

I have another mate who only smokes when he drinks. He smokes them like cigars though and doesn't inhale. I don't get that either. Again, he was in his 30s before he started doing that. He lives in Santa Monica at the minute and can't smoke within 20ft of a door or open window on a public building.

I honestly can't understand anyone starting to smoke at all once they've left school. By that time you should have more sense.
 
Bigpops said:
He lives in Santa Monica at the minute and can't smoke within 20ft of a door or open window on a public building.
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that would be a good rule for any building... want to smoke - do it in your own home, your own car or out in the open away from others

can't stand it in the summer when I have the balcony doors open in the lounge and suddenly the smell of smoke wafts in because some ****** is smoking on their balcon
 
Started young at school when it was still cool (?) and slowed down/stopped mid/late 20's but, still have the odd one when I've had one too many beers.
 
Started when I was 8 or 9 by pinching single smokes from my mum's packets. By the time I started junior high school I was smoking ten a day during the week and twenty a day on the weekends. In my mid to late teens I could smoke 40 a night when I was drinking and doing drugs. That continued for years until I got fed up of paying the ever increasing tax on tobacco the government was adding, and I switched to rolling my own with tobacco people bring me from abroad when they go on holiday.

At this point I'm probably held together by tumours and tar.
 
Tried a few puffs as many kids did back in school days, couldn't breath and started coughing on the first mouthful.

Decided it wasn't for me!

That and the inevitable passive smoke on the bus ride home. I walked from then on :p
 
Peer pressure must definitely be a factor, you can't blame a kid for wanting to have a go since their mate does and it's "cool".

Also I wonder how much of an effect the public ban has had, less people to make you think about trying it maybe?
 
I started at 11, stopped about 22? It's definitely for the young and impressionable imo. Why else would you spend so much on something that tastes like ass and kills you?
 
Thought pretty much everyone started with a group of boys experimenting behind the legendary bike sheds.. Or someone older going through trauma/depression

To look cool at 25 or something.. That's just lol
 
Tried once at university, purely to see if I could see the appeal.

Two drags in, I thought "What's the point of spending money on this", so gave it back to my mate and that was it.
 
itchy said:
Started at 12, still going strong at 43! :p
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Has to be one of the worst habits this. Tried it for a few years between sixth form and uni. Never really liked it but carried on regardless. Not had one for over 4 years now and much better off.
 
Smoking has got to be the dumbest thing you could do. My dad was a long term smoker and he quit about 15 years ago, the doc told him he would be dead in a few years if he did not quit. He is now pushing 70 and although he looks well he gets out of breath quickly and has to sit down. He goes to warmer climates but each time he catches a cold we think it could be his last. I'll be lucky if I have him for another couple of years.

my dad started smoking a pipe when he was at infant school!
 
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