smoking

I used to believe it was necessary to blow to smoke a cigarett.

le bicraveur du 45

I used to believe that when you could smoke on a cigarette even if the smoke didn't come out. only experienced smokers knew how to make the smoke come out, and the people who let the cigarette hang out of their mouth weren't experienced enough. I never knew why they put fire to it, and i never made the connection that that was where the smoke came from. I learned that when I was about seven

Julia

i used to think that only men smoked (probably cos my dad does but mum doesn't and never has). this made me think that if a women ever did smoke she would go to hell (i also used to be a strong believer in heaven and hell and was scared beyond changing my pants that i would go to hell if i did even one thing naughty) anyway when i went to my mums friends house once i saw her smoking (i was about 5 at the time) so i just said 'No!!! you're going to go to hell when u die!' mum and her friend laughed at me and being 17 myself now i realise that women can smoke. i smoke myself as well, and im not that worried about going to hell anymore!

was-a-good-girl

For whatever reason, I thought that grass was slang for tobacco rather than marijuana.

Anon

I used to belive that only men smoked

I believed this until I saw my grandmother smoking when I wasn about 11 (she lived on other side of the world from me). I was very shocked to see her smoking and had to ask mum about it

Anon

I believed that smoking would actually bring girls because i saw it on T.V. i was 5.

Anon

When I was very young, I told my father to quit smoking because I believed he would go to hell. He told me that he could never smoke as much as the cross that burned on our neighbors lawn.

Anon

I used to think you could get high by smoking oregano and that you made cigarettes with ordinary paper, I tried making one and it made me feel really sick I was a teen at the time.
I now smoke real cigarettes so it didn't put me off smoking altogether.

Adrica

My Dad has always been a chain smoker, and always referred to cigarettes as 'fags' as do a lot of people. When Mum would go to the shop she would ask Dad if he wanted any fags, and he always did - I thought fags were faggots, and thought that my Dad ate rather a lot of them. Yuck.

LadyAnnie

when I was small I saw these little heaps sigarette buds in the street. I always thougth there had been standing a bunch of people smoking together in a circle or something.
later i found out that cardrivers empty their ashtrays on the street....

norrit

I used to think that when you smoked a cigerete you held it by the end with tobacco ans smoked the end with cotten

Dizzy

I used to think all grownups smoked cuz the ones around me did. But i never wanted to smoke cuz it smelled bad. Now i'm very glad i don't have to cuz i know better and i still hate the smell.

~*~ Weirdo Nextdoor ~*~

when iwas little i thought smoking was good for you. actually, i thought i would die because i DIDNT smoke.

Anon

Dont make fun of me when you read this! When I was probably 5 or 6 and we went to restaurants, dad would get a smoking table. I thought that smoking was a type of Coke!!

CS

When i was alot younger, i didnt know which end of the cig to smoke, the filter or "cork" as i used to call it or the other end, as ide only seen adverts for cigs and never any one smoking one, or i had and not noticed i dunno. Anyway i do smoke now, have done for some time, and accidently re-discoverd which end to smoke. It was dark, i was drunk, ide brought some Davidoff cigs, that have a white filter, when i buy a 20 deck i always turn one upside down to smoke last the "lucky", a supperstition of mine that its the one that wont bugger up my lungs. any way "lucky" me accidently plucked my "lucky" ciggerette and continued to smoke the filter. I took one drag of the accryd fibre glass and chocked like ide never chocked before. Ive continued to do this twice afterwards, but with normal brown filters, im a stupid fool.

Fool from UK

When I was little I hated my mom smoking and tried hard to make her quit but she said she couldn't. I didn't believe her. Then when I was 15 I smoked to get a girl who smoked to like me. It wasn't long before I found out mom was telling the truth. I tried and tried and tried but I could not quit. I was now a nicotine addict too.

John

i used to believe that smoking refer was the same as smoking squares. well at least the same affect.. until i actually found out for myself...... ya well refer and squares aren't the same and nether is shrums and pot so ...there lots of differences..... alot...!

jasmine

When i was little we were in a gondola ( ski lift ) and someone previosly smoked pot in there and i smelt it and i said mom what is that smell? and she said someone was doing drugs i asked what kind and she said she thinks it was pot ... and it smelt really bad and for a while i thought that pot was burnt rocks and minerals.... i dont know why?

my family doesnt do drugs