Growing up my mom was married to a guy who had a daughter much older than i was. Both my mom and my step dad smoked, and one day i asked my "older sister" why people smoked. She told me it was because they drank the wine during church. I believed this till i was probably 12.
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought people smoked cigerates to keep warm.Anon
- When I was young I thought people smoked to stay warm.— Phil Stam
- I used to think that when you smoked pot that you actually smoked from a pot.— alexandria
- I used to believe that if you smoked too much,when you got mad your ears would smoke.Anon
- I used to think, all the way up to eight grade that if you smoked cigarettes you were an alcoholic— praneeth
- I used to believe that men drank beer and women drank wine. Anon