At what age did you start smoking....

[Cranky]

cigs? I took a couple from my mom's purse when I was 10 and dad found out. Dad, if it's so bad, why are you smoking!? And no, I don't smoke and never did except for cigars but even that didn't last long.

 

[QuickBpBp]

That's something I never got into. Bought my first car when I was 14 and was smoking tires by 16....

 

[Cranky]

That's something I never got into. Bought my first car when I was 14 and was smoking tires by 16....

Found me a car at 14 but dad said "I ain't having no junk old Ford parked in front of the house" but that was probably a good thing lol. Was smoking tires by the time I was 16 too. Not sure if he knows how much smoke I made when he let me take his 69 440 New Yorker out by myself....was 17 at the time but close to turning 18. Man, that 440 impressed me!

 

[eldubb440]

tried twice in seventh grade, and I puked both times......... F that

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Never did..... Only one in my family that didn't....

 

[gtx6970]

Tried it senior year of high school. for a few months

Not for me, havent touched one since

 

[chargervert]

We all stole cigarettes from our parents when we were young, trying to be cool. I got caught at around 10. But I started smoking around 16 and quit at 19 when I got laid off and had to feed a 440 Charger R/T. All the money went in the tank! I also couldn't catch my cousin anymore. All of a sudden he could out run me. I was weasing for breath!

 

[SlingLow]

I started when I started college. I quit the next new year for a few months, then started again. I did this each year for 8 years until I met my (now) wife. I felt like an idiot standing out on her patio in December having a smoke while there was a cute girl sitting inside waiting for me. Prices had increased to $1.45/pack by then (1985).

 

[WileE]

Tried once, at thirteen years old. Once was enough. Never again.

 

[kiwigtx]

I started at age 3...... was forced to quit shortly afterwards. Absolutely true.



My Uncle caught me with a discarded ciggie strategically placed behind my hand while riding my tricycle to the cowshed. As Mum puts it, I was copying my father on how to hold one while not being seen.
My father smoked until about 10 years ago.


Can't stand the smell of the smoke now.

And whenever I smell a Vape, I look around for the homo.

 

[polywideblock]

about 10. we used to buy a pack with 15 smokes in it from the local pool, then sit up the back and smoke them. I quit when I was 21 and never went back

 

[RemCharger]

I started at age 3...... was forced to quit shortly afterwards. Absolutely true.



My Uncle caught me with a discarded ciggie strategically placed behind my hand while riding my tricycle to the cowshed. As Mum puts it, I was copying my father on how to hold one while not being seen.
My father smoked until about 10 years ago.


Can't stand the smell of the smoke now.

And whenever I smell a Vape, I look around for the homo.

 

[#41]

We moved when I was 11 and I fell in with a rough group of older kids in the neighborhood, so I was smoking all kinds of stuff by my 12th birthday, draining off liquor bottles, swiping beer, and skipping school. Boy, there was nothing like going down to the rock quarry with a plastic bottle full of 12 different mixed liquors and a pack of smokes (not!)..... but man, we thought we were so cool. Thankfully, I somehow wisened up and left that stupidity behind me before I even got to high school.

 

[Richard Cranium]

My mother always smoked. In the car was the worst, especially in the winter, the inside of the car was a cloud of stinky smoke. In the summer, with all the widows open, she'd flick her ashes out the window and they'd come in the rear side window and hit us sitting in the back seat.

That was enough for me to never try it.

 

[cr8crshr]

Growing up in a smoker household.... my mom and dad were both heavy smokers, and we kids...4 brothers...took the habit up, I started at 14 and smoked for 40 plus years. The Military didn't help with the habit either. I quit in 1998 when I just got sick and tired of it so I have not smoked since. Glad I did because I am having issues now because of it and the hazardous exposures and burn pits from my Service. I now have COPD and Chronic Asthma as a result of it. 2 of my Brothers have also quit for quite some time now, but my one Brother, RIP, smoked like a chimney up until the end. Looking back, at my reckless abandonment of my youth, I would have never started in the first place. It is a nasty filthy habit and as a reformed smoker, I firmly believe that it needs to be banned, and the growing of tobacco for smoking purposes also be banned. It does have some medical value for battlefield wound treatments...thank the Israelis for that find...yet still so many continue to huff and puff on them Cancer Sticks and to what end? Nevada is a State with some of the worst of them so I avoid the casinos at all costs now...Just MHFO on this is all...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[69Bee]

15...

 

[Budnicks]

My dad was a a Lucky Strikes guy, my stepdad was a Chesterfield guy
both chain smoked, for 40+ years & both got COPD really bad now too...
Both were hard drinkers like a quart a day each too...
Perfect examples of what not to be when I was growing up...

But;
I used to chew Kodiak, or Copenhagen, from about 15
my sophomore year in HS, a ranchers sons habit, I picked up...

at like 27-ish
I started bumming smokes off buddies,
socially or only when in crowded places, just to not chew
around ladies etc.
in a couple years I was buying like a pack every 3-4 days
chewing & spitting, wasn't an acceptable habit in most circles,
except my friend or racing, or riding
so I got my fix or was thinking I would, buying smokes, Marlboro Lights
stupid ****...

I quit smoking anything (including the 'gang/squanski' killer Ca. green bud, code word)
when I was about 35-ish, I was a product of the 70's class of 77' baby
I didn't smoke too much, both are truly nasty habit/s, I hate it now
but;
quitting chewing Kodiak was way, way harder, for me
got cravings a lot more...

Smoking one day, I'd smoke like 3-5 cigs a day, usually after eating, or drinking booze
then I said "enough of this ****"
I just crumbled up a dang near new pack, almost full pack (they were like $3-$4+ then)
threw it in the bed on my truck
I haven't smoked cigs since...

Well I have, smoked a good cigar a time or 2 after,
but never inhaled, never got hooked
too harsh, usually did it while golfing/drinking/parting with my buds
I could grow some really nice , quit that too after,
when the/my young kids where in the scene...

I'm glad I don't do any of that crap for near or over 40+ years now...

former smokers (who actually quit) are the worst, when someone else is smoking still

 

[1967coronet]

Yeh, 12 or so for me, did not smoke much until I was out of the house at 17,stopped at 50.

 

[Dennis H]

Started at 13. 1966. My Dad and I quit cold turkey together in 1984. Camel Filters. Loved every one of them. Could stand one right now…all the coercers who said food would taste better? Tasted good then, tastes good now. I used Skoal Bandits while motorcycling between smoke stops.

 

[copper67sat]

Parents were former smokers that had quit when us kids came around, but had some relatives that smoked. I started at about 13 or 14 when my 2-yr older sister started. Quit at 23 after moving away after college. Smoked cigars occasionally for a few years in my 30's. Was never a heavy smoker so I didn't miss it when I quit. Now I can't stand be around it.

My wife's family was all heavy smokers. She hid it for years after we married because I had quit and didn't want to be around it. I knew she still smoked, but gave up trying to get her to quit. She finally quit for good in 2008.