I was told that there is nothing good about smoking tobacco. Thus, it did not appear to me that smoking mildly relaxes and alters mood, neither did I know about the addictive potential. Thus, I thought that people smoke because they either do not know that it is bad for you, or alternatively that they are inherently evil, and consequently do things that are bad.
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I used to think that my dad was "smoking pot" when he would smoke his pipe while sitting on the toilet. Anon
- I used to think that smoking was good since it was banned in elevators.— olikafibi
- I thought that smoking pot involved an actual pot from the kitchen.— Aeris
- I used to believe that Marijuana was a disease you got from smoking.— LMH
- A friend on mine thought that smoking menthal cigarettes would make his breath minty fresh.Anon
- I used to believed that smoking would make me a cowboy.— Alberto Batista