# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/101 "2009-02-02T00:17:12Z")
Me (as long as we don’t count secondhand smoke… bleah!!!). Mom smoked cigarettes. Dad smoked cigars / pipes. Both revolted me from a very early age. The surprising thing was that of 4 kids, only 1 ever smoked cigarettes, and he was able to quit as an adult. I believe the 2 other brothers probably experimented (with tobacco and/or wacky tobacky). ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/102 "2009-02-02T00:25:16Z")
Me. Never smoked. ---
**Author:** ![EpiGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@EpiGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpiGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/103 "2009-02-02T00:25:44Z")
Have never smoked anything. My mother still smokes but sparingly and usually “in hiding”. She did smoke around me all the time when I was younger and when I was about 3 years old I remember actually liking the smell of cigarette smoke. To be honest, though, I was a weirdo reading books about drugs in the school library when I was in the 3rd grade, so I had the idea that “drugs are bad!” ingrained in my brain for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/104 "2009-02-02T00:30:50Z")
Count me in. I’ve never smoked anything in my life, and I’m damn proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/105 "2009-02-02T02:09:39Z")
My mother smoked when we were kids, and we saw how hard it was to give them up. (But she did.) So I never even started. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/106 "2009-02-02T02:10:34Z")
Not-a-once, although I’ve rolled a few; after hours at debate camp could be deadly dull at times, especially in Lubbock. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/107 "2009-02-02T02:13:12Z")
Here. Never, never, never. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/108 "2009-02-02T03:21:47Z")
I’ve held a pipe, once. Never smoked it or anything else. Not interested. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/109 "2009-02-02T06:07:22Z")
Me. Both parents did and I hated it. So I never started. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/110 "2009-02-02T06:12:00Z")
I’ve smoked exactly 3, but I was trying to get laid so I don’t think it really counts. Plus I was in a bar (before the smoking ban) so the damage was pretty much already done. I smoked a cigar once too! I ended up throwing up and being quite ill. ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/111 "2009-02-02T06:21:09Z")
I have never smoked one of my own, or inhaled at all, but I used to have to light them for a sister of mine all the time. One summer when I lived with her, I was her personal maid/assistant, and one of the things I had to do, was light her ciggarettes, and then hand them to her. So I suppose I don’t really count. Smoking is one of the few bad habits I have never had. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/112 "2009-02-02T14:05:29Z")
Never smoked any kind of cigarette. My mom smoked when I was growing up and I didn’t really find it gross or anything, but I was never tempted to try it myself. and the people I hung around with weren’t smokers. ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/113 "2009-02-02T17:16:57Z")
I’ve never smoked a cigarette either. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/114 "2009-02-02T17:48:35Z")
Never. Both of my parents smoked like chimneys until I was 12, when my dad just quit. My mother smoked until the day she died. Driving with her was like riding with Cheech & Chong; open the doors, & smoke would billow out. Never tried pot - it smells worse than cigarettes or cigars, IMHO. I was not above taking advantage of its effect on my GF in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/115 "2009-02-02T17:53:32Z")
I didn’t inhale. No, really. I’ve never smoked but in my last year of high school when I had to take either music or drama, I took drama and near the end some other guy and I did a scene in which a cigarette _had_ to be smoked, and at the time we thought we were being really subversive by using a real one on stage given that you weren’t allowed to smoke in any school building. I “fake smoked” by drawing the smoke into my mouth and blowing it out again, but it really looked stupid and everyone could tell I wasn’t really smoking. But honestly, how the hell do smokers do it? I accidentally inhaled part of one drag during rehearsal and instantly started choking, eyes watering, the whole deal. I can’t imagine doing that on purpose, all the time, and how anyone could get over the choking. And when we actually had to present the scene, I started talking while there was still smoke in my mouth and it came out my nose! Frak, that sucked too! The only other times I ever tried smoking cigarettes was at some party where we were all drinking underage. I took a drag off my buddy’s cigarette, or tried to. (choking, watering eyes etc.) as above. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/116 "2009-02-02T21:16:50Z")
_chiming in_. Never smoked a cigarette EVER, and never will (same goes for cigars and pipes). I won’t even be FRIENDS with someone who smokes. If you smoke, you’re an idiot in my eyes, end of story. Neither of my parents smoked, and when I was 5 years old I got my grandmother to stop by saying that I would no longer spend ANY time with her or at her house as long as she was still smoking. I can also count on one hand the number of times I’ve smoked weed - once with a joint, once with a pipe, twice with a bong…and each time I was so disgusted that it overshadowed any possible benefits that the drug could have. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/117 "2009-02-02T23:45:17Z")
Never. I am allergic to tobacco. I am told that I turn green when I sit in the smoking section of a restaurant. I have never felt the slightest inclination to try it. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/118 "2009-02-02T23:46:29Z")
Nope. Never. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/119 "2009-02-02T23:50:14Z")
I am disappointed that this thread didn’t ask for the age of the posters. I am curious if the “smoking is disgusting and will kill you” from an early age made the difference. I would think you would find less that have never tried it over 40. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878/120 "2009-02-03T00:11:11Z")
Since you mentioned age: over 40, never smoked one, and I’ve never been tempted beyond idle “wonder what the attraction is”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-never-smoked-a-cigarette/483878.md?page=7)