I Want to Vent

can I ask how many times makes a person a smoker....I have smoked a cigar not more than fifty times in my life...I am now forty seven .....

I mentioned some how to my doctor that I no longer bother with even cigars but I am now identified as an ex smoker....this seem quite ridiculous......

what do others think....

for me a smoker is someone who smokes constantly for a period of time.....