A friend of mine used to believe that smoke stacks were there so that smokers could crawl up them to smoke. She figured they were all standing on the shoulders of the person below them.
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- when i was younger i believed that clouds were made from the smoke stacks — lisa
- I used to think the clouds were made of the steam that comes out of the factory smoke stacks.— TJ
- I used to believe that clouds came from the smoke that came from the factories. — Anela
- I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.— Robert
- I used to believe that if you smoked too much,when you got mad your ears would smoke.Anon