If you smoke or used to smoke, why did you start smoking?

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56. I'm lucky I was allergic enough that I never took it up.

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It was nasty having to use the "girls" barhroom in the HS Cafeteria all smoked up. Ugh. It was considered cool back then.

My uncle & I went to a ?"Progressives for Humphrey" indoor rally in the fall of '68. It was a "smoked filled room". I had a sore throat, irritated eyes, and probably a headache by the time we left!

My mom smoked (medium+?) until she got severe asthma when I was 5 1/2 yrs old. Who knows maybe being totally at home those first 3 yrs before Nursery School made me already a bit sensitive.

What I'm most grateful for is that my 💖 dear sister, and only sibling quit in her early 30's. She turns 64 in May.

I did smoke a little pot back in the '70's. At the Rocky Horror Midnight Movie theater show I'd end up with a contact high.
Back then though it was sweet smelling smoke of middle class kids. Not the almost skunky smell of poorer quality weed in my more working poor to barely middle class nabe now.