When I was little, about six or seven, my best girlfriend and I would pick up cigarette butts off the ground and if they had lipstick on them, we would light them and smoke them, believing that women didn't have germs but men did so the lipstick meant they were safe.
A childhood belief about smoking
others believed things like this
- I believed that burglars ate soap & lipstick— Karen
- When I was little I believed that when I put lipstick on my lips, the lips grew.— Alba Águila Castelló
- I used to think that clouds were caused by cigarette smoke— Monkey Dave
- My kids believe if they pick their nose their butts will fall off!— wendy
- I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.— Robert
- ‘Unadulterated’ meant that something wasn’t rated 18+ and was therefore safe for kids— Evie