When my sister was in grade 8 she had to do an essay on the effects of smoking. She did lots of research, and read somewhere that minors weren't allowed to buy cigarettes. When she read me her essay, she said: "Miners aren't allowed to buy cigarettes because if they smoked in the mines, they would suffocate and could cause an explosion." I almost peed my pants when I told her the truth. She's lucky I caught that, otherwise her teacher would have been very disraught.
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
- A friend on mine thought that smoking menthal cigarettes would make his breath minty fresh.Anon
- I used to believe that you spelled "ESSAY" like "SA" and "EASY" like "EZ".— Lauren
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon