i thought tobacco was just dead grass. so when my friends mom left one day, we got some white paper, some dead grass in the backyard and walked around trying to smoke it. I was 9.
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- For whatever reason, I thought that grass was slang for tobacco rather than marijuana.Anon
- When i was a kid I used to believe that smoke was dead souls floating around— Nick aged 8
- I used to think that if you walked down a dead end street you would die.— holly
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass— Landon