bad habits: smoking

One day in elementary school some guy came by our school to tell us about the dangers of smoking cigarettes. He told us the cig companies put all types of harmful chemicals in the cigarettes. I raised my hand and told him my father's cigarettes were harmless because he grew them and rolled them himself so I knew there weren't any harmful chemicals in them. When I got home and told my mom she made my dad throw out his weed plant.

I used to believe that when someone gave something up "cold turkey" it literally meant that they no longer ate cold turkey. I had no idea how that would affect smoking. I did understand vaguely how that would affect weight loss.

I used to think that tobacco was the smoke that stayed inside of the cigarettes until you lit it and the smoke came out.

I used to think that inside a cigarette there are four or five filters in a row that are burnt when smoking. (The tobacco shelfs at shops had transparent bags of filters for roll-your-own cigarettes.) I used to think that people roll their own cigarettes so that they can adjust the lenght of the cigarette by choosing how many filters they use.

I was told that there is nothing good about smoking tobacco. Thus, it did not appear to me that smoking mildly relaxes and alters mood, neither did I know about the addictive potential. Thus, I thought that people smoke because they either do not know that it is bad for you, or alternatively that they are inherently evil, and consequently do things that are bad.

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.

When i was in the 8th grade someone asked me if i smoked reefer and i thought it was a new brand of cigarettes. I smoked cigarettes at the time so i just said yeah.

When I was about 16 I had told my mom that some kids at school smoked, and she told me that I never wanted to smoke, because when the tobacco was in the field birds would poop on it and that stayed in the cigarettes. I was so disgusted that I never tried to smoke and I got a few of my friends to quit as well.

when I was younger, I thought that you smoked by swallowing it. So, when I tried it I swallowed, and after about 10 times in a row of me swallowing air, I burped and a HUGE puff of smoke came bellowing out. It wouldn't have been that bad, but I was in the middle of talking to someone when I did it. They didn't know what to think!

When I was about 3, me and my grandparents took a train trip through Canada. We were sitting in about the middle of the train car and the front of the car was the smoking area. I looked up and saw smoke and stood up screaming :The train is on fire! The train is on fire!" Boy did that get a laugh. The college girls put out their cigs and asked me to join them. So I played Barbies with them for a few hours :)

i thought tobacco was just dead grass. so when my friends mom left one day, we got some white paper, some dead grass in the backyard and walked around trying to smoke it. I was 9.

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!!

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!

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.