Posted by Jessica on March 21, 2004, 17:23:14, in reply to "Why did we start?" --Previous Message-- I had my first drag at 8 or so and started at 9. No hassle...in fact, my mom bought them for me from day one. I never toyed around with candy cigs or any of that stuff. My interest burst on the scene at 8 and away I went. I wonder what "old enough to smoke my first cigarette" means to others. When is that magic threshold crossed? Like any other, it is in the mind of the beholder. I am aware of no guidelines, are you? I'll bet there are as many opinions as there are people. We are conditioned to believe that smoking is an "adult practice." Just like drinking or sex. But the fact is that any kid can functionally smoke, unless they have asthma or something like that, well before they can experience genuine sex or handle one drink without getting tipsy or worse. Sorry for prattling on and on, it is just that this whole idea of some "set age" for smoking, or anything else, is just a bunch of b.s.
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: do you remember your first
: thoughts of a cigarette,
: what made smoking so
: alluring for you? how old
: were you, who was your
: first cigarette with? I
: remember playing dress up
: as a kid using crayons to
: hang out of my mouth- i
: couldnt wait to be old
: enough to smoke my first
: cigarette.
:
I started because I admired my mom, who smoked a lot. I watched her drag, inhale, exhale, smoke sometimes pouring out her nose. So cool, I said to myself. And then I had a cousin who paraded around with her cigarette dangling at family parties when she was 11 and everybody (except grandma) said how cute she was!
I know atleast 2 families where the mom (somehow always the mom?)let the little ones take a few drags here and there, light a cigarette for mommy, that kind of stuff and I mean when the kids were way young...4 or 5, whatever. Of course, these weren't real drags...just suck, blow and choke! But these moms were ambivalent to it...like it was the most natural thing in the world. I stood their with my mouth open staring when a little kid I sat for back when I was 13 or so picked up her mom's cig idling on the ashtray, puffed on it and put in back...while mom was just sitting there, talking on the phone.
So what is that "old enough" age?
I figure I will get my doors blown away now for this. Such is the price of saying what you think.
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