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Up until I was about 10 I thought second hand smoke was when a poor person picked up the butt of a cigarette from the ground and smoked it.
Rosebud
when iwas little i thought smoking was good for you. actually, i thought i would die because i DIDNT smoke.
I have an uncle who's just 10yrs older than me. One day when I was 7, I saw him gently tearing apart a cigarette. I asked him what he was doing and he said he had to take out the old brown stuff and put fresh green ones and I couldnt tell my grandma OR else. I never knew what that green stuff was until 4yrs ago when I was 17! He was rolling a joint!
JecNucz
For whatever reason, I thought that grass was slang for tobacco rather than marijuana.
When i was a kid, I used to believe cigarette smoke could make you fly.
Théo parietti
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
When I was about 7, I heard my grandma and my aunt talking about my aunt quitting smoking. My grandma told her to cold turkey. Of course, I didnt know what that meant at the time..so I asked her this.. "Why dont you go eat some turkey now? Theres some in the fridge." I remember thinking how easy it would be to cold turkey.. (they laughed btw)
Jess
Until I was 12 I thought a cigarette was just a thin piece of paper rolled up. I had read somewhere about soldiers using the pages of a Bible to roll their cigarettes, so one night I ripped out a blank piece of paper at the back of a Bible and snuck outside rolled it up and lit it, when I inhaled it burned my mouth really bad! A few months later I found out about tobacco.
Not to bright
I don't smoke, never have, and when I was in middle school (aged about eleven) the kids had obviously heard people saying that "everyone smoked at the high school." Somehow this belief developed that when you got to high school, the older kids would grab you in the yard and force you to smoke cigarettes. We'd never heard of peer pressure and this seemed the only explanation for the fact.
"Well, I won't let them give me any cigarettes."
"Duh, Silverstar1809, they FORCE you to smoke them."
"I don't care, I'll... trip them over or something!" (From the sweet kid of an eleven-year-old that I was, this was unprecedented violence.)
Not made any better by the fact that I had asthma and began coughing horribly if someone was smoking on the same train platform, so I believed that actually smoking would kill me.
Somehow I survived.
silverstar1809
When I was about 2 years old, I not only believed that my father ate the cigarettes he smoked, but I also decided to do so myself. As you can imagine, eating tobacco is very harmful to a toddler, and this whole fiasco resulted in a trip to the hospital and a stomack pumping.
M.M.
In all the old movies, smoking a cigarette sometimes signifies that the smokers have had sex, usually illicitly (like in "Now, Voyager"). I was exposed to a lot of these movies in childhood, and one day my neighbour and my aunt both started to smoke. I was about five, and I ran in screaming that Auntie was having sex with the neighbours (whatever *that* meant). I tell you, the looks on my mom's and cousin's faces were priceless.
Kate
I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.
Robert
My friend used to tell me that if you crossed a cigarrete lying on the road, you will become a smoker when you get older. And they only way to prevent it, is to spit on the cigarrete you cross.
I still remember spitting on the road whenever I stepped over a cigarrete. I hated becoming a smoker.
Raj
i thought when pepole were smoking they ate candles and i thought thats why my mom kept candles i dint know anything about tobbaco
Michael
I saw someone smoking when i was little, and i ran up to them shouting: "Watch out sir!!! your candy stick is on fire."
Laura Hingle
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.
When I was younger, my brother and his friends used to party alot and since they were teenagers, they dabbled with marijuana (quite frequently). They told me that the smell was cigars, and not until recently (my own dabbling) I figured out the smell.
nen
in elementary school, i overheard a girl being scolded for smoking in the bathroom. "smoking in the bathroom" i thought. i later asked the girl what she ate for breakfast. rice crispies. i avoided them ever since.
snap...
crackle...
pop.
joel s
I smoked exactly one time in my life. When I was about 6 years old, a friend and I found a partially smoked cigarette on the sidewalk. Using a magnifying lens to light it, we each took a drag off of it. I got very ill, and I remember thinking for months afterward that one puff had given me lung cancer. Since then, I have never smoked.
John
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