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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:17 AM Original message |
Current and ex-smokers: Why did you start to smoke? |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. back when i was a kid, the cultural millieu was very strange |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Very strange indeed. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Oh jeez. I call 'Bullshit'. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. I smoked for about a year, ending a few weeks ago |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. It seems like it might be very mildly entertaining. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I wasn't interested at all a few years ago. Now I'm back there again |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Oh well. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:27 AM Original message |
You're not old enough to buy cigarettes anyway. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. Thank you for stating the obvious. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 06:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
43. I said the same thing when I was your age |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. I grew up during the 70's when everyone smoked |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I think the defining characteristic of human beings is to know the right thing to do |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. That's really twisted. |
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malta blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
11. I started smoking at 13 - I am now 38 and have recenltly quit. |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
12. Started cause grown-ups said "No" |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
13. Well, |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
14. I started smoking when I was 16 |
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Divameow77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. I started smoking around 16 |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
16. It was the bus stop's fault |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
17. Smoking goes great with a lot of "hurry up and wait" -type activities. |
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gizmo1979 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
18. When you are young |
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RushIsRot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
19. I started smoking so I could learn to inhale... |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 01:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. That's exactly what happened to me! |
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RushIsRot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. I was 26 when I started. I made it through three years in the Army |
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Ariana Celeste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
20. I was 12 years old, just moved, |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
22. Back then (50s) it was 'cool' and grown up. |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
23. I watched a lot of television |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
24. I started smoking because my friends smoked. It really was that simple. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
25. as soon as you grow up and get STUPIDER you will start smoking too |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
26. my brother gave me one to try, so I did. I was 15. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. to be honest |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. I started at 16 with a few friends. I got hooked early on. Now I try and |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. chicks dig it? |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 01:50 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Its time-passing and contemplative properties are neat |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. I started because the adults in my life told me I wasn't allowed to do it. |
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Norwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
34. I've been a light on and off smoker |
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lost-in-nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
35. I also started in the 70's |
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camero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
36. I started at 22 |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
37. I had my firsy cigarette at 29... |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
38. I started when I was a teenager in the 60's when popular culture... |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
39. If you didn't smoke when I started, you were considered |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
40. as far as I can tell, it was because I am an idiot |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
41. all the cool people smoked .... |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
42. Marvin said it was cool |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
44. I started smoking at 16; I think there were a couple of reasons for me. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
45. smoking goes well with all of my other bad habits |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
46. Started smoking right before college |
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lizerdbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
47. Picked it up from a friend at 14 |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
48. Basic training, Jun 62. I was 19. |
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PoconoPragmatist (449 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
49. Got Started In My Early Teens |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
50. Pure boredom was why I started. |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
51. My best friend and I started smoking when we were about 15... |
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reyd reid reed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
52. When I was in junior high |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
53. Started at about 12, quit at 24. |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-08-07 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
54. I picked it up from my friends. |
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