When I was younger, my brother and his friends used to party alot and since they were teenagers, they dabbled with marijuana (quite frequently). They told me that the smell was cigars, and not until recently (my own dabbling) I figured out the smell.
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw - Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to believe that hairspray was made of grapes! =) Does't it smell grapey to you? XD— Jaime
- I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!— jordan
- I used to think I had the special power of being able to smell things with my finger.— Pablo