when i was small i always use to ask my parents for a cigarette, one day my dad told me that untill i was 16 my fingers would go orange and drop off if i had a cigarette
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I used to think that clouds were caused by cigarette smoke— Monkey Dave
- I used to believe that if you smoked a cigarette while drinking an alcoholic beverage you would blow up!— Sue
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john