# Who Here Has NEVER Smoked A Cigarette? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 31, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878 "2009-01-31T16:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/81 "2009-02-01T05:38:27Z")
Never had one - tobacco, pot, or anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Azhure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@Azhure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azhure)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/82 "2009-02-01T06:07:50Z")
I’ve never smoked cigarettes or anything else. Besides the fact it wouldn’t mix well with asthma, I’m just not interested. My parents never smoked but my aunt did (does), and I disliked visiting her house as the smell was everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/83 "2009-02-01T06:12:45Z")
> [@lynne-42](#): > > Annoying thing is that I got bladder cancer a few years ago - highly correlated with smoking (and other triggers with which I have no contact) - the probable trigger being so much contact with passive smoking. I was very lucky - it was caught early. Smokers are killing us non-smokers as well as themselves. My mom’s dad was a heavy smoker, and her mom, a SAHM housewife, spent most of her time in the smoke-laden house. She also had a congenital lung condition. She died when my mom was 18, and Mom is sure that all the passive smoking was a big contributor to that. I’m pretty sure my mom has never tried smoking either, yeah. And my grandfather was always grumpy when I knew him, since he had emphysema or something and was an alcoholic too. That’s all I remember about him, is that he was grumpy. Yay, smoking. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/84 "2009-02-01T06:26:25Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My parents smoked. I loathe smoking. Alcohol gets a ‘meh’ of disinterest from me, but smoking is something I will go out of my way to avoid. Including not dating smokers. > > I remember coming home from my father’s place _reeking_. I would dash into my apartment, rip off my reeking clothes, and throw myself in the shower. It was that nasty. And when he moved, I cleaned his apartment. The beige walls were _chocolate-brown_ in places above the baseboard heaters where circulating air had carried tobacco smoke past the same spots year after year. I had to do this before. When my mom left I decided to clean the house from top to bottom, the first decent cleaning it had in a good 15 years. The house had was stained with a good 20 years build up of tabacco residue from two chain smokers. I was washing the walls in my basement. Afterwards they were more beautiful than I’ve ever seen them before, but about every five feet I would have to empty the dirty water. It was black, like cola. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/85 "2009-02-01T06:34:29Z")
I never have, though I lived in a house with smokers. That stuff’s nasty! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/86 "2009-02-01T09:07:19Z")
Never, even though every single member of my family, except my grandmothers, smoked or still smokes. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/87 "2009-02-01T09:14:25Z")
Another non-smoker here. Never have, never will. Helps that I come from a family of non-smokers, aside from one half-brother who reckoned he did smoke for a bit, then quit. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/88 "2009-02-01T12:13:00Z")
Both parents smoked. Cigarettes are are an amazingly disgusting habit. I’d sooner roll in feces than smoke a cigarette. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/89 "2009-02-01T13:53:39Z")
I’m 41, and I’ve never even _held_ a lit cigarette, let alone smoked one. I’ve never smoked anything. Never tried it once. The idea of sucking in a bunch of smoke makes me want to puke. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/90 "2009-02-01T14:46:00Z")
Me. Not tobacco, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MissIntent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@MissIntent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissIntent)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/91 "2009-02-01T16:59:43Z")
Had asthma problems as a child, kept me away from it. My mom also told me once that she had smoked for a few years in her twenties and then quit, never touched them since. She was in her 40’s when she told me the story, and she said she still missed them. The thought of something having a hold over me even after not touching it for 20 years… it bothered me too much. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/92 "2009-02-01T17:43:39Z")
I have never smoked a cigarette, joint or anything, unless you count the cigar that a friend of mine tried to get me to smoke at a Christmas party 2 years back- I think I had 3 small puffs, turned green, and spent the rest of the night feeling really pukey. I didn’t inhale it, because my friend and the others said that inhaling cigars is a bad idea, but it made me feel terrible anyway. The main reason I never smoked anything else is because my parents were vehemently anti-smoking and talked about how nasty and gross it was- my mother’s parents smoked HEAVILY until about 1969, when my grandfather quit, but my grandmother smoked 2 packs a day for another 20-25 years, until I was in high school. I remember going to visit and being congested and sick when I’d come home. I also remember her baking me cookies that tasted great at her house, but tasted like cigarette butts when I took some home. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/93 "2009-02-01T18:39:21Z")
Never smoked, never held a tobacco product, never came close, never had any desire to. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/94 "2009-02-01T19:41:52Z")
I find it interesting that most of the ‘never smoked’ crowd in this thread grew up with smoking parents. I’m rather the opposite, no one in my immediate family smoked but I grew up to be a smoker. My mom did tell me that she smoked for about 2 weeks when she was in beauty school which was years before I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/95 "2009-02-01T20:20:54Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Haha. Man, a childhood full of all the typical anti-drug education (Just Say No and DARE and all that) had me convinced that when I stepped into high school, there would be all kinds of pushers constantly trying to force cigarettes upon me, that people got bullied for not smoking, and so on. Reality ended up being rather boringly anticlimactic. Is it like that for everybody? I assumed I was never even offered drugs or cigarettes in high school, let alone pressured to try anything, because I was (and am) the Queen of Dorks. I’ve never smoked a cigarette, tobacco or pot. I’ve had massive allergy attacks from secondhand pot smoke. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/96 "2009-02-01T20:40:14Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I often like to say I’m one of the 12 people in the United States that has never smoked a cigarette… LOL 🙂 > > Just wonder who else has NEVER smoked a cigarette? > > (I’ve never smoked a cigar or smoked anything else either) Me! (Well, tobacco- are we limiting it to tobacco?) This was my “Never have I ever” question in the game thread… ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/97 "2009-02-01T20:47:50Z")
Add me to the growing list. Never smoked one cig, cigar, pipe, or uncontrolled substances. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/98 "2009-02-01T20:49:58Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I find it interesting that most of the ‘never smoked’ crowd in this thread grew up with smoking parents. My parents didn’t (and don’t) smoke and I have never smoked. My best friend in elementary school’s parents did smoke a lot, though, and her father had a heart attack when my friend and I were nine or ten. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/99 "2009-02-01T21:00:31Z")
My dad gave up smoking when I was about 8 or so. He burned my hand by accident - I was walking next to him, and I went to hold his hand, and put it right on the cigarette and got a nice little burn. it didn’t even scar but he felt so guilty that he put them out that day. I know he smoked a couple of times at work but he never did at home again. That was early enough that it affected me deeply. My dad was not a good dad, by any measure, but he gave up smoking because it hurt me once. I never had an urge for a cigarette, and when it was offered, I always remembered his sacrifice and didn’t want any. It’s a strange correlation, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/100 "2009-02-01T21:02:03Z")
Never smoked anything. Way too many smokers in my family. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878.md?page=6)