Your first cigaretteTo be honest, inhaling the fumes from some burning leaves isn't the most natural thing in the world.
Tell us about the first time. Where, when, and who were you trying to show off to?
Or, if you've never tried a cigarette, tell us something interesting on the subject of smoking.
Personally, I've never ever smoked a cigarette. Lung damage from pneumonia put me off.
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chthonic, Wed 19 Mar 2008, 18:49)
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Cancer Stick!! Hit the deck!Well my VERY first smoke I guess was uterinal (sp?). My mom smoked while pregnant with me before all the 'Smoking while pregnant messes up your children' messages came out.
Most of my youth was spent watching my parents suck down the little white sticks that I couldn't really see the appeal of; but at the same time longed to be part of the club, kind of like a rite of passage into adulthood I would be given my first cancer stick and joyfully reduce my lifespan along with my parents.
My first actual physical cigarette was when I was about 14. We had met a guy we knew at school who was old enough to buy them so me & my mate convinced him to let us try one each.
I remember it being a warm summers day and after getting our first smokes we hid on an embankment in order to take our first drags.
*suck...* *blow...*
"Eh, that wasn't so hard. Tastes like crap but I was kinda expecting coughing like you see on the TV"
A few weeks later and joining in with the other kids smoking I was trying to analyise where I was going wrong. Its not like you get instructions on these things!!
"You have to take it back" a kid tells me.
"How the hell do you do that"?
"Well you breath in, and then breath in again"
"What? How the hell can you breath in twice and breath out once!?"
It didn't make sence at the time but I tried anyway.
A few moments later I realised what all the coughing was about.
I never really took it on 'full time' after that. Couldn't afford it really but I would take one if offered.
A few years after my 16th birthday I smoked 'full time' but it still confused me when people would get gittery on flights without a smoke? I never really got (or do now) have any withdrawal symptoms.
My parents still smoke but I dont (I do have one occasionally as my guilty secret :P) but I can seem to pick it up and put it down without a problem.
I still enjoy the smell of good tabacco and I find smokers are probably the better bunch of people to hang out with.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 12:46, Reply)
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