No one in my household smoked when I was little, but when my aunts and uncles would come over at Christmas, they would smoke in the house. I thought that they ate the cigarette because they were putting it up to their mouths and it got shorter and shorter. I guess I never considered the smoke they blew out!!!
A childhood belief about smoking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you smoked too much,when you got mad your ears would smoke.Anon
- I used to think that clouds were caused by cigarette smoke— Monkey Dave
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- I used to believe that if you smoked a cigarette while drinking an alcoholic beverage you would blow up!— Sue
- When you ordered small fries they were just shorterAnon
- Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.Anon