When I was about 2 years old, I not only believed that my father ate the cigarettes he smoked, but I also decided to do so myself. As you can imagine, eating tobacco is very harmful to a toddler, and this whole fiasco resulted in a trip to the hospital and a stomack pumping.
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
- when i was 4 i believed i could breathe under water, one day i decided to try it and woke up in the hospital!Anon
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - When I was little, I thought it was harmful to eat while you were going to the bathroom. Anon
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California