I’ve never smoked a cigarette, pipe, cigar or joint. My mom let me take a puff when I was a kid, just so she could show me how nasty it was. I was never tempted again*. (Where’s the “yuck” smiley?)
*She did the same with my brother, but he started smoking at 14 anyway. :rolleyes:
I’ve never smoked anything. Both of my parents and both of my sisters smoked, but I always thought it smelled nasty.
I smoked a cigar in a school play, but the smoke never went beyond my mouth before I exhaled it. Never smoked a cigarette, and never want to either.
I am shocked by the number of people who have never tried it even once. I thought most everyone would’ve
I was in high school during the 70s (we even had a smoking court) and I was the only one I knew that never at least didn’t try it.
Never smoked. (Female, 29)
Had 2 grandparents die of emphysema. I hated their hacking coughs and the smell of their house, and how we smelled when we’d come home from visiting them. I told them I’d give them a cupcake if they quit, of course I was 5 then… It’s sad, I really loved them, but it really screwed them up.
A lot of us who haven’t are younger than you. The percentage of Americans who smoke has been steadily declining since 1965. Attitudes toward smoking have been changing along with that. In the early 90s when I went to high school, there were no smoking courts. I won’t say the bathrooms never smelled smoky, but there was AFAIK no indoor place where smoking was officially allowed in my high school. Two years after I graduated from high school, Maryland (the state where I went to high school) banned smoking in most workplaces.
My grandmother smoked like a chimney. When anyone gently suggested she stop, she loved to wave her cigarette under their noses and say waspishly, “I know what I’m dying of. Do you?”
Tough old broad. As it happens, she didn’t die of cancer.
Never. They (and people who smoke them) stink abominably. That, plus the fact that I’m asthmatic and saw my grandfather die from smoking-caused emphysema when I was 15, has been been more than enough the ensure I never have been the slightest bit tempted to try one.
I’ve never even thought about it. Growing up, my allergies were so severe that several doctors told me I had “allergy-induced asthma”. Though my allergies aren’t nearly that bad anymore, just walking into a restroom stall after a smoker is enough to make me start coughing. Combined with a family history of serious heart/lung issues, I have no desire to smoke.
(Female, 26.)
We fish don’t smoke cigarettes, pipes, cigars, or weed.
Hard to keep 'em lit.
Same here.
My mom was a 3-pack-a-day smoker. I never smoked because I sensed,-- even at a time where smoking was the grown-up thing to do, the sophisticated thing,-- that it was an addiction. I didn’t know the word, but I knew the reality: to my mother smoking was more important than food for her children, for example.
She died of lung cancer at the age of 66. Her siblings are all alive and well, ages 70 to 88.
I have never smoked anything. I suppose it has to do with an irrational revulsion toward smoking itself. I cannot even hold a sealed packet of cigarettes. It makes my skin crawl. Someone asked me to hold their lit smoke at a party once and I couldn’t even bring myself to do it.
I have handled pretty much anything you can think of without gloves, be it vomit, faeces, even rotting animal flesh and nothing but nothing makes my skin want to crawl right off like cigarettes.
I personally think smoking should only be allowed in your own dwellling, and if you live in some sort of apartment, it has to be zone and for smoking only, no one under 18 can live there. I even hate when people smoke outside. I hate running the gauntlet of people smoking approximately 6 inches from the door. Though, I would fully support there being an extra tax on smoking materials to build little smokers huts that are away from doors.
I even can tell when someone is smoking in a car ahead of me on the highway. I am that big of a freak. I still feel this way about smoking even though I think they should legalize pot and many other drugs. Just don’t smoke it where I have to be!
Ok, I admit on this whole smoking thing I am a raving lunatic
Does 2nd hand smoke count? Smoked two crummy cigars passed out for the “new baby.” Could not understand what the attraction was–totally disgusting.
Until I smoked a Cuban cigar given to me on New Years a long time ago. It was awsome–I’m glad its illegal for US citizens purchase them, I’m pretty sure I’d being smoking them even now…
I’ve never smoked. I’ve not even tried to smoke one. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever even held a lit one.
Never smoked, never tempted. Asthma has made my lungs crappy enough already without deliberately ruining them. When our province went smoke-free last year, I was thrilled.
Are you saying you’re allergic to tobacco smoke? Because that’s impossible, I believe.
Never smoked anything. My parents smoked when I was a kid (they quit when I was 10 or so) and I always hated the smell. It held no interest for me at all, not even a mild temptation.
My mother fled Cuba at a young age when Castro came into power. She successfully learned English and attended school before there were ESL classes. She started the girl’s athletic association at her school, and won a state title in the 200m dash. She lost her (catholic) high school valedictorianship by failing religion for writing a pro-choice essay. She graduated medical school in three years. She married a man of a different race and religion, and didn’t speak to her family for a time because of it.
She used to lecture me constantly as a child to not smoke, as she did, for 10 years.
She once off-handedly said that the hardest thing she’d ever accomplished was quitting smoking.
That immediately and permanently erased whatever curiosity I’d ever had for cigarettes.
I’ve never smoked, never been tempted. Both my parents smoked, I spent most of my childhood in my bedroom or outdoors because it was the only way to avoid the smell.
I can’t even bring myself to touch anything associated with smoking. It makes my flesh creep.