At what age did you start?

8/4/2006 4:14:23 PM

At whatever age their parents stopped parenting and left them to be influenced by losers.

8/4/2006 4:16:56 PM

^people cant just start smoking for the fuck of it?

8/4/2006 4:18:20 PM

I blame fucked up parents.

8/4/2006 4:18:50 PM

what if the parents told their kids not to smoke and the children started anyways?

8/4/2006 4:19:45 PM

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"At whatever age their parents stopped parenting and left them to be influenced by losers. "

They must have given up on you early. I can't blame them though, the best thing you can hope to do with shit is make a shit sandwich.

8/4/2006 4:21:58 PM

i woudlnt really call myself a smoker really, but i didnt smoke with any degree of regularity (again, if you want to call it that) until my junior year of college.

8/4/2006 4:24:40 PM

15

but i quit for good after my 21st bday

8/4/2006 4:26:32 PM

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"At whatever age their parents stopped parenting and left them to be influenced by losers."

Same parents, same rules, same parenting-- my sister is only a year and a half younger than me and she smokes and I don't.

8/4/2006 4:27:20 PM

every kid is not the same

8/4/2006 4:30:50 PM

gargs is a retard.

8/4/2006 4:34:25 PM

sup smoker

8/4/2006 4:34:38 PM

OK, so far I have:

15

I was sitting at work and I realized that I have never really heard of anyone starting in their twenties. I figured for most folks it was something they began in when they were teenagers.

8/4/2006 4:35:48 PM

surgeon generals warning - cigarette smoke is dangerous.

[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 4:37 PM. Reason : i started in my 20's but i quit so....]

8/4/2006 4:36:55 PM

i just told you that i didnt start until i was at least 20/21, so yeah...

8/4/2006 4:37:04 PM

^^^

a lot of people start in college when theyre away from their parents

chicks especially because they get fat and stress out

but i guess most people start before 18

[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 4:38 PM. Reason : asdf]

8/4/2006 4:37:51 PM

8/4/2006 4:37:52 PM

my sister didnt start smoking until her mid 20's

8/4/2006 4:38:16 PM

never

too cheap for it plus I kissed a girl once who just got done smoking and a) that was the last time I kissed her and b) that solidified my notion that smoking was not for me

8/4/2006 4:40:29 PM

^^^^^ Well you said that you "wouldn't really call" yourself a smoker and that you didn't smoke with "any degree of regularity" until your junior year. I suppose I should clarify the question. Those of you who smoke currently or did so for a prolonged period of time (>2 years); at what age did you try your first cigarette?



[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 4:42 PM. Reason : .]

8/4/2006 4:41:49 PM

8/4/2006 4:42:09 PM

An obese person ridiculing smokers is fucking hilarious.

8/4/2006 4:46:17 PM

hahaha

8/4/2006 4:46:36 PM

BobbyDigital won

8/4/2006 4:52:24 PM

nah

8/4/2006 4:52:50 PM

id say theres a difference between trying and smoking regularly. someone could hypothetically try it at 15, but not smoke regularly until their 20's.

that said, again, my sister didnt smoke regularly until she was 24/25. i smoked enough where it'd have been a lie to say i didn't, but it was mostly social smoking (except maybe a 1 month period). much cheaper just to steal everyone elses anyways.

8/4/2006 5:02:44 PM

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"An obese person"

gargs is hardly obese.

8/4/2006 5:04:43 PM

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8/4/2006 5:07:17 PM

Thanks for the insight cyrion. Anyone else with something real to say?

[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 5:18 PM. Reason : ]

8/4/2006 5:17:16 PM

to answer your original question

i started at age 18, about a week before ncsu started

my friends had recently gotten arrested for marijuana possession, and i really wanted to smoke SOMETHING

waited over 4 months before smoking marijuana again, and by that time i was hooked to cigarettes

8/4/2006 5:22:58 PM

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"much cheaper just to steal everyone elses anyways"

ya bum

8/4/2006 5:29:03 PM

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"I was sitting at work and I realized that I have never really heard of anyone starting in their twenties. I figured for most folks it was something they began in when they were teenagers."

that's because MOST people are dumber when they're younger...the ones who continue to smoke are the ones in which the condition did not improve

8/4/2006 5:57:02 PM

tried it when i was 17...did it on and off for id say a month...didn't consider myself a "smoker" because in that month I maybe smoked 1/4 of a pack of cigs altogether. I tried it again when I was 18...it was a completely social thing because at the time my best friend smoked. I never smoked by myself and never got remotely addicted.

8/4/2006 6:01:48 PM

Smoking has nothing to do with intelligence level. Nicotine actually helps in memory retention.

I started to smoke at age 14 in order to increase my metabolism and reduce my desire to eat so I could maintain my wrestling weight.

I'm 23 and still smoke. I enjoy smoking cigarettes. Very few things have the stress relieving factor as a smoke.

8/4/2006 8:07:59 PM

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"I started to smoke at age 14 in order to increase my metabolism and reduce my desire to eat so I could maintain my wrestling weight."

as opposed to exercising and working on self-control

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"I'm 23 and still smoke. I enjoy smoking cigarettes. Very few things have the stress relieving factor as a smoke."

$10 says your stress level will be through the roof when you're dying of lung cancer

okay, so you have effectively proven that the choice to smoke doesn't have to do with JUST intelligence, but also with your level of indolence

[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 8:16 PM. Reason : .]

8/4/2006 8:16:14 PM

first tried it at about 10

started smoking at 16ish

8/4/2006 8:19:00 PM

I started in Oct 2004, at the age of 27 years 7 months.

I just quit 3 weeks ago, at the age of 29 years 4 months.

During that 1 3/4 year period, I averaged 2 cigarettes a days.

I started because of the influence of new friends I made, who smoke other stuff.

8/4/2006 8:25:28 PM

honestly i've had 6 cigarettes since i first posted in this thread

8/4/2006 8:26:59 PM

So I guess from the anecdotal evidence that I have seen here, folks will start smoking even in their late 20s. That's really not what I expected. I wonder if anyone has ever done a real study with a large group. I'll have to look that up.

8/4/2006 8:49:15 PM

peter jennings stopped from the mid 80's til 9/11

8/4/2006 8:50:27 PM

"folks" can (and do) start smoking whenever

8/4/2006 8:50:47 PM

whats the easiest way to quit

i think next paycheck i might buy some of those patches

8/4/2006 8:57:30 PM

replace one oral fixation with another oral fixation

8/4/2006 8:58:40 PM

start giving blowjobs?

8/4/2006 8:59:24 PM

^^i was thinking of doing that but i can see myself getting tired of gum and candy is fatening...idk i guess i could eat trail mix

might help my dooky

[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 8:59 PM. Reason : .]

8/4/2006 8:59:44 PM

I dont smoke.

Well I have smoked 14 cigarettes in my life, pretty much each time I did I was shit bombed. (and enjoyed it:beatup

I have enough unhealthy habits that will catch up with me later in life to pick up cigarette smoknig.

8/4/2006 9:01:05 PM

^^ i've had an oral fixation for as long as i can remember (commence gay jokes)...i drink well over 2 liters of water every day in an effort to avoid eating, biting my nails, etc.

8/4/2006 9:04:16 PM

i always chew my ice at resturants

what does that mean?

8/4/2006 9:05:50 PM

beats me...but if you pull the label off of your bottle, you're sexually frustrated

*shrug*

8/4/2006 9:08:30 PM

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

woah.....

i've did that like 3 times in the past month at ruckus

8/4/2006 9:10:29 PM