Smoked Since I was 12
I enjoy it. The majority of my family smoke so it was inevitable.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
The opposite for me.
I had one cigarette when I was about 19 or 20, disliked it; once tried a pipe, disliked it. I haven't smoked since.
My brother and sisters have never smoked, and neither have any of their spouses and families.
Our Dad smoked cigarettes but once admitted he wished he'd never started. His was of a generation that regarded smoking as normal though, even manly or grown-up or good for you or something equally fatuous. (Few women smoked, in comparison).
I know many people in many different circles, and have done for years; and far fewer of them smoke now, if they ever did.
One striking illustration of this is in clearing the field after a long-running, annual event in which I have been involved for years. Long ago, the floor of the communal marquee would be liberally sprinkled with fag-ends all to be picked up on the clearing day, along with any other litter (of which there was never much anyway, and that accidental). Nowadays you'd find barely a dozen ends - and all outside the tent, [i]not[/i] inside.
Another is just how much more pleasant the pubs are, now that smokers (including of vapour cigarettes) have to light up outdoors.
I had one cigarette when I was about 19 or 20, disliked it; once tried a pipe, disliked it. I haven't smoked since.
My brother and sisters have never smoked, and neither have any of their spouses and families.
Our Dad smoked cigarettes but once admitted he wished he'd never started. His was of a generation that regarded smoking as normal though, even manly or grown-up or good for you or something equally fatuous. (Few women smoked, in comparison).
I know many people in many different circles, and have done for years; and far fewer of them smoke now, if they ever did.
One striking illustration of this is in clearing the field after a long-running, annual event in which I have been involved for years. Long ago, the floor of the communal marquee would be liberally sprinkled with fag-ends all to be picked up on the clearing day, along with any other litter (of which there was never much anyway, and that accidental). Nowadays you'd find barely a dozen ends - and all outside the tent, [i]not[/i] inside.
Another is just how much more pleasant the pubs are, now that smokers (including of vapour cigarettes) have to light up outdoors.