My Dad is a chain smoker and he used to do a lot of fishing, using maggots as bait. I used to think that his yellow smokers fingers were from picking up the maggots and putting them on the hook!
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I thought that gnats were baby flies, then one day I found out about maggots. yuck— Felicia
- That captain hook lived in my closet on the very top shelf.Anon
- I used to think, that if you're picking in your nose too much, you push your eye out.— Joanna
- When I was younger, I used to think that picking your nose was against the law.Anon
- Picking your nose and eating it. Hey! Tastes like chicken and only half the calories— Henry the Seventh
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia