At What Age Did You Try Your First Cigarette?

fmdog44

fmdog44

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My dad smoked cigars and my mom did the cigarettes. I guess I first tried one when I was about 12, not sure but me and my buddy would steal one from our folks, Neve got caught.
 

I was still in the single digits.

My older sister used to snitch cigarettes from my aunt and when I caught her she started snitching two in order to buy my silence.

I started smoking on a regular basis around the age of 12. My friends and I would sneak into the local firehouse and buy our smokes from a vending machine.
 
About 13, took it up full time a year later, nobody batted an eyelid in those days, everybody was smoking, I gave up over 20 years ago for health reasons and never been the same since !
 
I think I was between the ages of 10 to 12.
My next door neighbours parents had a rolling machine so my girlfriend made some for us. I hated it though and never really smoked cigarettes. I found better stuff to smoke.
My dad would occasionally smoke cigars when he drank and my mom never
 
I tried one when Virginia Slims came out. I could not handle holding a cig and going about my business. My sister can smoke and go about her chores but I could not so tried that first one, put it out and threw out the rest of the pack. Never tried it again. Just not my thing.
 
I started this terrible habit when I was either 13 or 14 watching what my parents were doing thought it was cool.
A pack of cigs was $.35 but it took me 2- 3 days to finish a pack.
I quit 'cold turkey' when cost of a pack was $1,to this day the smell of cigarette smoke bothers me Sue
 
I was 15. I remember how hard I worked to get past feeling sick and awful so that I could be "cool."

I smoked till I was 20 when I had my first child. I stayed quit till my 5th child was 8 or so. I quit several more times for the next few years, but always went back to them. In 2008 I quit again, hopefully for good this time!!!
 
I was about 13 but just tried it, didn't like it. Then started smoking at 26, a girlfriend at the time started me. This time I liked it and continued until about 11 years ago when I finally quit.
 
I tried it when I was around 13 or 14, neither of my parents smoked cigarettes, my father would have a White Owl cigar now and then usually in summertime and always outdoors. My older brother smoked Marlboro reds, those were my regular brand during my smoking years. Started at 15 and quit around 30.
 
About 16. Smoked about a half of one cigarette and thought "what a disgusting thing to do." It stank and made me stink too. I never tried again.

I can't explain my aversion to smoking. It was just there. I grew up in a smoking family and later worked and socialized with smokers. Everyone around me smoked, it was the odd one (me) who didn't.
 
At 17, my freshman year in college. It was considered ultra cool to sit on the steps of the girls' dorm with a cigarette in your hand and ask passing guys for a light. I guess we thought it showed what sophisticated women of the world we were.....

I never got up the nerve to actually inhale. I just took an occasional "mouth puff" to keep the cigarette going. I think I "smoked" about five times and then never smoked again.
 
jujube said:
At 17, my freshman year in college. It was considered ultra cool to sit on the steps of the girls' dorm with a cigarette in your hand and ask passing guys for a light. I guess we thought it showed what sophisticated women of the world we were.....

I never got up the nerve to actually inhale. I just took an occasional "mouth puff" to keep the cigarette going. I think I "smoked" about five times and then never smoked again.
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:lol: JuJube
 
About 10. My Dad left his cigarettes on the porch steps while he was doing yard work. My friend and I snitched one,lit it up with a lot of trouble, as I remember. We both took a few puffs and buried it in a sand pile. We thought it was horrible. Years later when I was working I tried it again. There was a Tobacco that my Uncle smoked in his pipe that smelled wonderful. They made it into cigarettes. I can't remember the name of it but figured I would try them since they smelled so good. It certainly didn't taste as good as it smelled. I never smoked since.
 
I never did smoke cigarettes. Both my father and mother smoked Camel straights. I always hated the smell of them. My father died of a heart attack at 45 and my mother the same at 53. That's an average of 49 years. I'm 71. That means I've had my 49 years plus 22 of somebody else's. So I'm sticking with what got me this far. I will admit that back in the day I did puff on an occasional cigar trying to look cool. But I never inhaled.

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Trade said:
I never did smoke cigarettes. Both my father and mother smoked Camel straights. I always hated the smell of them.
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Same here. My parents smoked "L&Ms" and I thought the smell was awful. I'm sure I inhaled enough 2nd hand smoke as a kid to kill me several times. :cough: (But then again, I rode my bike without a helmet, gasp.)
 
At 9 or 10

First one was caught from a guy driving by and flicking his half smoked cig out the window

We shared this prize between the four of us, in our headquarters (abandoned shed)
Think it was a Pall Mall straight

I’ve smoked on and off most my life
Not one after another, but after a meal, or that first morning cup

When I frequented drinking establishments, it was as many as I could inhale.
But that was then

Now?

I roll my own

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Enjoy them about 4-5 times a day…outside, on the porch

…and I do enjoy them

Doubt it’s what’ll kill me
Nor will it be scotch, or beer (I really don’t drink that much…maybe a nip a month, and a beer a week, maybe)
Not even overeating (because I don’t)

No

My kids…my spawn…will kill me

They’ve been carefully plotting it for a very long time now


Hoping it’ll be quick
 
I think I was around 16 when I tried that first experimental cigarette. Back then, you could buy a pack from a machine, and if the machine was in an unfrequented place, no one was the wiser. "Marlboros" were the cool thing to get, but I never developed a habit.
 
I was 12...smoker 50 plus yrs..now have heart issues copd and on oxygen...but energy level still up and can go w/o o2 for awhile...
 

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