At What Age Did You Try Your First Cigarette?

Never did try them. As a teenager, I saw older women smoking and Ithought it was unladylike. Not an image I wanted to project.
 

I was 16 when I bought my first pack of cigarettes for 50 cents. It didn't do anything for me and I realized that I was earning 50 cents an hour chopping cotton under the West Texas sun. Somehow that didn't make sense to me and I never bought anymore.

After I joined the Navy, I had a brief flirtation with smoking a pipe, but that didn't last long either. I could never keep it lit and dragging all that stuff around was a nuisance. I once worked for an old ex-enlisted Lt who smoked a pipe and if you asked him a question he would go through that five minute "pipe drill" while he bought some time before coming up with an answer.
 
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I never tried smoking. My parents both smoked and it held no interest for me.

My husband started smoking at 19 and he still smokes. I wish he'd quit but I guess he's not ready.
 

My father was a Camel/Lucky smoker, then switched to cigars in his 40s. When my parents split up my mother lightly smoked Tareytons for a while.

I tried one when I was about 13. I snuck up on the roof (2 story house) and lit it up, just puffing. Then I slipped. I gasped and got a lungful!! After my head stopped spinning I went inside and never touched another one. (Out of 4 boys in the family, I was the only one who did not smoke his entire adult life.)

Fast-forward to when I stopped drinking at the age of 36 and decided I still deserved a vice, so started cigars and over time became a heavy cigar smoker. I stopped that about 10 years ago.

The stupid things we do to ourselves....
 
I was raised by parents who smoked and were heavy drinkers ..Iā€™ve never had even a unlit cigarette in my mouth or drank anything stronger than black tea
I have asked just for fun if they taste any better then they smell ....I hate the smell
 
Can't remember first one. Maybe 10 or 11 or 12? Never really smoked cigarettes. I did smoke a pipe in the 70s (Borkum Riff tobacco) and then cigars in the 80s until about 6 or 7 years ago. If you would like to send me a good Arturo Fuente Hemingway, I'll step outside and try it again.
 
Must have been around 13 or 14 ...I was the youngest of three brothers and both my brothers smoked , so I had to do the same to be '' one of the lads '' . Been regretting it for the last 12 or 13 years since I got COPD šŸ„µ
 
I was 13.....It.took me ages to learn how to take it down lol ..choke , splutter....šŸ„“šŸ˜±

us kids always went to the local corner shop, and bought 2 tuppenny halfpenny Park Drive, and a penny book of match.....6d...that was our pocket money gone.....

I gave up 34 yrs ago......
 
At age 4, an evil and immature in-law (uncle) let me drag on his cigarette, but no harm was done. At age 11, I tried one of my dadā€™s Raleighs, got dizzy, and chucked it. Again, no damage.

But at 14, it got serious when one of my two BFFs urged me to smoke. I thought I looked so cool after taking his advice, sitting there at that Orioles baseball game, thinking I looked like James Dean.

For a solid week, I got dizzy and nauseous with each drag. My body was trying to tell me ā€œHey dummy, stop this nonsense,ā€ but I persevered because I was cool. The last dizzy episode was the worst, made me lie down on the grass, but I knew somehow that this would be the last of the warning symptoms.

I was right. The body grew tired of sending out warnings and I became an established smoker. YAY!

Itā€™s funny, one BFF prodded me into smoking at age 14, and BFF #2 did the same thing with alcohol at age 17. With BFFs like that, who needs enemies?
 
Started when I was twelve, one or two a day, some grape vine, a roll your own, Dukes Mixture
or Bull Derm. Mom saw loose tobacco in my shirt pocket and told my dad I was smoking. He
smoked roll your owns. He asked me to roll him a cigarette which I did, he gave me a match and
told me to light it. I struck the match on the leg of my jeans like I'd seen adults do. Then he told
me to eat it. I knew he was mad then. I folded it in my mouth, fire and all, chewed it all up,
tobacco, paper, the whole ball of wax. I was determined not to get sick in front of him. Bought
my first pack of cigarettes on the way to school the next morning. Smoked for fifty-four years.
Was it hard to quit? About the hardest thing I ever did.
 
C'est Moi said:
I never tried smoking. My parents both smoked and it held no interest for me.

My husband started smoking at 19 and he still smokes. I wish he'd quit but I guess he's not ready.
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@C'est Moi he'll quit when he's ready, and it may take him a few tries, I tried many of times, and quit once for a year and a bit... but started again... But this time around 5 months, has been my best quit ever, I have no interest in it at all this time around... Did it cold turkey this time, no aids...

I started late in life, I didn't start till I was almost 20... through with school, discovered women, beer, and smokes... and the rest is history...:cool:
 

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