# How many cigarettes do you smoke a day? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918 "2012-03-27T02:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/21 "2012-03-27T14:09:15Z")
When I was twelve Skip, a twenty-something friend of our family who was pretty much a well known hard-ass told me," If you ever smoke a cigarette I will kick your ass. Even if I have to come back from the grave to do it." He was murdered the following year. When I was 26 and drinking heavily with friend I borrowed a cigarette and smoked it to see if he would show up. He didn’t. I was so traumatized by the fact that my friend didn’t show up all moldy, bloody and with a large shotgun hole in his stomach, that I never smoked again. True story. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/22 "2012-03-27T14:19:18Z")
Zero. I quit cold turkey about 27 years ago, and then would have the occasional one while out at a bar. But I haven’t had the urge to do that in about 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/23 "2012-03-27T14:32:31Z")
None. I tried to smoke once, because I wasn’t “fitting in” at the first place I worked after college, and everyone else smoked so I thought it would at least be something we had in common. I bought a pack and tried to smoke one. I absolutely hated it and snubbed it out after a few minutes. I couldn’t understand how anyone would voluntarily do that, and frankly still don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/24 "2012-03-27T15:01:07Z")
None. I find it takes the amazement out of life. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/25 "2012-03-27T15:31:46Z")
About 0.0017. I’m 47 and I’ve smoked about 30 fags in my life. I grew up around smokers… most all my family and friends puffed, but i never took a shine to it. That being said, i do love the smell of tobacco. I even miss that smoky bar smell. I was travelling through Memphis last year and there’s a bar in the airport that has a smoking section. I thought it smelled heavenly. Small doses and all, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/26 "2012-03-27T15:40:18Z")
None. Unless second hand smoke is included or you count smoke from sources other than cigarettes (solder/plastic/electronics fumes anyone?). That is, I spent most of my life with a mother who smoked up to a few years ago (she has since quit, mainly because I bugged her about it and she thought cigarette taxes were getting exorbitant, although she has been hooked on Nicorette gum ever since, I guess not so bad though). ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/27 "2012-03-27T15:47:09Z")
Pack and a half to two per day - depends on a lot of different things. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/28 "2012-03-27T16:09:27Z")
About a dozen. Hard to say for sure; I carry loose tobacco & papers and roll my own so the size is not consistent. But a 0.4 oz. pack of Top® lasts about 3 days and out of the 40 papers / pack there are usually a few left over when the tobacco runs out. SS ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/29 "2012-03-27T16:29:14Z")
Zero on 95% of days. Anywhere between 1 and 15 on the other 5%. ---
**Author:** ![RedBloom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@RedBloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedBloom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/30 "2012-03-27T16:35:09Z")
Between 7-10 per day. Always in private. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/31 "2012-03-27T16:59:37Z")
Tobacco cigarettes? Zero. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/32 "2012-03-27T17:01:58Z")
Zero now, but I smoked a pack a day for better than 30 years. I watched my dad die of cancer and still smoked. Pictures of rotting lungs and cachectic cancer victims did nothing to dissuade me. I dunno why I suddenly decided to quit 5 years ago, but it is my one and only measurable accomplishment in life. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/33 "2012-03-27T17:03:24Z")
About half a pack. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/34 "2012-03-27T17:25:35Z")
Zero. How does one actually smoke three packs a day. Let’s ignore cost for a second. That’s 60 cigarettes and 5 dedicated hours of smoking a day, at a minimum. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/35 "2012-03-27T17:35:35Z")
None, or essentially none. I smoked for a couple years in college and quit, and every once in a blue moon I bum one off a friend. I haven’t done that in 6 years or so though. ---
**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/36 "2012-03-27T17:42:52Z")
Back when I smoked, 10-12 a day, if I went out to a bar I’d finish the pack. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/37 "2012-03-27T17:43:44Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Zero. > > How does one actually smoke three packs a day. Let’s ignore cost for a second. That’s 60 cigarettes and 5 dedicated hours of smoking a day, at a minimum. Depending on where you’re smoking, it isn’t all that hard. I know when I’m working at home I smoke twice or more as much as usual - but it isn’t technically smoking - it’s me lighting one, setting it in the ashtray, getting distracted, and when I go back, it’s almost down to the filter. So you light another one, get distracted, etc. My husband does that too when he’s doinking around in the garage. Light one - set it ashtray, proceed to get distracted, go back to find no cigarette left, light another, etc. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/38 "2012-03-27T18:07:21Z")
Zero. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/39 "2012-03-27T18:38:24Z")
Used to smoke 1/2 a pack a day. Quit January 21, 2011. Since then I haven’t had any. Congrats to all the other quitters! ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918/40 "2012-03-27T19:27:27Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t smoke any voluntarily. I resent it when people force me to smoke them second-hand. 5 posts! It’s a record! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cigarettes-do-you-smoke-a-day/616918.md?page=3)