Why did YOU start smoking (cigarettes)?

I mean, I can see why someone would want to smoke pot or something. it has its obvious upsides.

I just have never fully comprehended why people start smoking cigarettes. sure, in school they tell us all those dorky reasons (peer pressure, to look "cool", ect), but I'm curious as to why YOU started. eh?

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i didn't start. mwa ha ha ha.

Originally posted by Hyperbole:
i didn't start. mwa ha ha ha.

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anyone who would willingly give themselves cancer is an idiot.

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[This message has been edited by failure (edited 04-01-2002).]

The usual, typical reasons. Worst decision of my life. Seriously.

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i wanted cigarette breaks at work (honestly). i smoked occasionally before that and really didn't think i'd get hooked.

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Originally posted by frail_and_bedazzled:
i smoked occasionally before that and really didn't think i'd get hooked.

hehe...the surgeon general's warning "cigarettes are addictive" written on the pack wasn't enough?

When I was 10, mainly because it was unknown territory. I've been smoking periodically since, and haven't become addicted at all. I smoke maybe a pack every three or four months. Usually when I'm drinking, but sometimes when I get stressed at work.

Addiction is for the weak. Test yourself, and see if you are.

[This message has been edited by Affectation (edited 04-01-2002).]

Stress.

Originally posted by failure:
anyone who would willingly give themselves cancer is an idiot.

My great, great aunt was over the other day for Easter. She's ninety-nine and really out of it. I asked my uncle if he aimed to live to such an old age. He pointed to his cigarette and said, "No, I've got these on my side."

Originally posted by Hyperbole:
hehe...the surgeon general's warning "cigarettes are addictive" written on the pack wasn't enough?

what does the surgeon general know about medicine?

Originally posted by failure:
anyone who would willingly give themselves cancer is an idiot.

You subject yourself to cancer with nearly everything that you come in contact with, idiot. You can either die at 65, after a boring life. Or at 60, after an amazing one.

i guess i'm weak. then again, i did manage to quit despite being a major chain smoker.

Originally posted by Affectation:
When I was 10, mainly because it was unknown territory. I've been smoking periodically since, and haven't become addicted at all. I smoke maybe a pack every other month. Usually when I'm drinking, but sometimes when I get stressed at work.


That's ideal. I wish I could smoke moderately like that.


Addiction is for the weak.

Pure bullshit. sometimes you dont see it comining.

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Originally posted by Affectation:
You subject yourself to cancer with nearly everything that you come in contact with, idiot. You can either die at 65, after a boring life. Or at 60, after an amazing one.

Although I'm not really disagreeing, I don't think that smoking cigarettes makes your life amazing.

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i wasted all my years, been chasing all my fears

It doesn't make your life amazing, but the abstaining majority tend to not venture out much into the many outlets that life has to offer.

that sounds stupid.


you need them to handle stress and you've been smoking for 9 years, yet you're not addicted?

hmmm.

Originally posted by trine:
The usual, typical reasons. Worst decision of my life. Seriously.

Originally posted by peabody:
that sounds stupid.


you need them to handle stress and you've been smoking for 9 years, yet you're not addicted?

hmmm.

You must not have read that carefully enough. I occasionally have a cigarette to calm me down. Occasionally as in once every other month.

I've been smoking for eleven years, not nine.

Having a cigarette every few weeks hardly sounds like addiction, chief.

Originally posted by Affectation:
You subject yourself to cancer with nearly everything that you come in contact with, idiot. You can either die at 65, after a boring life. Or at 60, after an amazing one.

obviously you didn't read what i said, dipshit. of course there are numerous, uncontroleable ways that one can get cancer. however, anyone who would knowledgeably and willingly give it to themselves when they have the choice not to is an idiot. and since when does smoking make your life 'amazing'?

Fag. The point is that you can either try your best to live inside of a protective shell, and experience nothing, or live a little. Chain smoking leads to cancer. Second hand smoke in a chain smoking house leads to cancer. Having a cigarette every so often DOESN'T lead to cancer.

But please, continue to live in fear. You'll meet your pathetic end soon enough.

I was 15 and had recently dumped my boyfriend. When I was 17 I got bored of the habit and quit.

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Originally posted by Affectation:
Fag. Having a cigarette every so often DOESN'T lead to cancer.

Sure it does, it's just that the odds of it diminish the less you smoke.



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[This message has been edited by trine (edited 04-01-2002).]

I started smoking continually by the time I was 15. Why? I thought it was the cool thing to do.

I quit over a year ago.

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I started I guess when I was about 12 when I was riding dirt bikes with older friends. Started smoking alot when I went to college because it seemed to go well with beer.

Originally posted by trine:
Sure it does, it's just that the odds of it diminish the less you smoke.

I like you.

I don't smoke often, but when I do, it's to look cool. Honestly.

Looking cool, and dying before you're too old. This is what life is all about.

I can tell you why my brother just started. (he's 19) He's insecure and thinks that smoking will make him cool in the eyes of his stoner surfer friends while at the same time pissing off his parents and sister. SOUNDSL IKE A WINNER, DUDES!!!

Sounds like someone with an open mind, and lack of the standard bigotry that the majority of people have.