I believed that only well-off people could buy cigarettes, and poor people who smoked spent their time scouring the streets for cigarette butts to get a couple of drags from
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I used to think, all the way up to eight grade that if you smoked cigarettes you were an alcoholic— praneeth
- I used to believe that if you smoked a cigarette while drinking an alcoholic beverage you would blow up!— Sue
- all people who smoke roll up cigarettes have been to prison— spam
- When I was little I thought people smoked cigerates to keep warm.Anon
- I used to believe that only 'poor' people had to go to the bathroom, that 'rich' people didn't.Anon
- When I was young I thought people smoked to stay warm.— Phil Stam