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).
Me. Never smoked.
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.
Count me in. I’ve never smoked anything in my life, and I’m damn proud of it.
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.
Not-a-once, although I’ve rolled a few; after hours at debate camp could be deadly dull at times, especially in Lubbock.
Here. Never, never, never.
I’ve held a pipe, once.
Never smoked it or anything else. Not interested.
Me. Both parents did and I hated it. So I never started.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve never smoked a cigarette either.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nope. Never.
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.
Since you mentioned age:
over 40, never smoked one, and I’ve never been tempted beyond idle “wonder what the attraction is”.