Have you ever smoked?

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How old are you? Have you ever smoked? What are your views on smoking? If you have smoked why did you start?

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started smoking at 13 to be 'cool' only to find out later once I was addicted that it wasnt so cool afterwrds, took me 12 years to get off the habit, but off it I am.

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second hand unfortunately

i am 24 now i smoked when i was 13 i gave it up before and i would never start again i was young and stupid and i done it because every one else done it Yes I have puffed a cigg a few times, but it was when I was younger prob around 7 or so, and the only reason I did was so that my mom could teach me a lesson,not to do it! Didn't like it then, hate it now! Smoking Kills! People need to realize.

tryed it once, never again.

I am proud to say I have never smoked. Just had no disire to start.

Yes. 24. Yes. I actually think smoking is a nasty habit.triying to quit.I started when I was 13, I think it was because lots of my friends, and my older brother smoked. started smoking at 15 also to be cool, left it a year later cause my parents found out and my dad yelled so freaking hard at me that I felt like quitting

i'm 23 n has never smoked. i dont want to try. I heard someone tried, began suffocating n died after a few days

I'm 21 and I smoke normal cigs since I was 19. I started smoking a lot lately so I stopped and now I've just started smoking again, but a considerable amount per day. I started because I was going thrugh a bad moment and it made me calmed down. Then I continued because I felt sexier and smarter when smoking (I know you can disagree on this one, sorry). Luckily I think I can control it, I can really enjoy a cig and I can say something like: today, I'm not going to smoke, and I just don't do it.

Don't start and if you do, quit, and here's a link to help you do it:

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I'm 33 started when I was 19. Hate it; wish I never started. Started when my ex wouldn't quit so I joined him. Stupid huh? started when I was 14 at school "cos every1 else was" like a sheep! Im 28 now and stopped on my second attempt 18 months ago using patches and determination. I now cannot stand the smell of *** reek!(smoke)

I smoked for about 10 years as a kid (because everone else smoked). I quit when I got married, then about 10 years after that I got a form of cancer directly attributable to smoking cigarettes. I think tobacco companies deserve everything that happens to them. Twenty or thirty years ago they could have been forgiven for believing their customers "had a choice", but we now know that nicotine is more addictive than heroin!

I started smoking when i was 13 to try and fit in with the popular ones at school,that was 20 years ago and i wish i had never started. Ive tried to give up 3 times but i dont seem to have the willpower.

started when I was 14..quit and restarted a few times..been off the nasty things for.I guess close to two years now. Don't really think about them too much any more. I smoked for 32 years. At 58, I am an ex-smoker of 8 1/2 years. Each day I am very glad I quit and also think "Wouldn't a cig be great?" A dumb 16 year old started to be cool.

Smoking is one of humanity's stupidest activities. It has no upside at all.

The only proper smoking I ever did was pot (pure grass, no tobacco). The psychoactive effect was noticeable but kinda pointless; personally I'd rather be having sex or drinking red wine in the sunset. I also had one drag on a tobacco cigarette. Utterly disgusting. Bleugh.

I'm 36. All the above is in the last 5 years.

Where I live they just banned smoking in public places. This is FANTASTIC and I thoroughly recommend it. As a direct result, the pub trade has not dramatically collapsed and the local pub owners have suddenly not gone bust. Hundreds of thousands of people have defiantly not marched en-masse on Parliament in protest.

I quit about 15 years ago after smoking about 20 years. The nicotine patch worked for me. I started smoking because it was "cool" back then. I quit because it got too expensive with nothing to show for it. Smoking doesn't bother me all that much but I don't like the smell lingering on my clothes. yeah i started at 13 untill i was 20, but i carried on having the odd cigerette if was on a night out for about a year afterwards but now im a smoke free zone and i cant wait for the smoking ban to come in so i can go down the pub and not come home smelling like an ashtray!

15, no, I don't mind other people smoking but I wouldn't do it myself, my asthmas bad enough as it is thankyou

No, I'm 15, completed them in June and I have never smoked until now and I believe i never will. 90% of people who die of cancer are smokers and so are other people who die of heart deseases and bronchi inflamation and emphysema. I think smoking couses no good. Teenagers today like smoking becouse they think it makes them seem "cool" but in fact they become pray of a disastrous habit.

Still smoke, have just cut down from 40 a day to 10, with the help of a nicitne inhaler. Feel loads better, even though i wish i could cut it out completely & wished i'd never started. I'm 37 now, started when i was 14, easily led with friends! Just enjoy them i suppose still at the moment and still look forward to having my new decreased daily amount & until that subsides, i'm still puffing away I'm beginning my 40's ~grin~ I started smoking in my teens, it was the 'in' thing.WOW what a stupid concept huh? Well, I've recently stopped smoking, most likely it's too late.. Cig's are designed to be addictive.I was too stupid and uniformed at the time to realize that.me and all my buddies thought it was cool. I have lung problems and have lost many people to lung problems associated to smoking. It's not all about lung cancer.it's hardening of the arteries, COPD, emphysema.I could go on.

started when i was 19, heps me to get through the day. smoke over a pack/day.

Well I am 48 and no I have never smoked. I have got real hot before but i never did smoke. However I did steam a time or two after taking a real hot bath and came out of the bathroom I could see steam coming off of me..

no.and never will don't know where you're aiming with this question, if trying to make smokers feel bad, it won't work, and i am sure that smokers are one of the most deprived groups today. yes, i smoke. so what? i started when i was about 17, turkish coffee and good cigarettes are one of the simplest and greatest joys in life, have no plan to give it up. i am 24, meaning i have been smokin for 7 years. and, so what? other people drink, are violent, treat others like crap, but still, the smokers are the ones getting most punches. still, if you are wondernig wether to start, try thinking about how smoking will affect your life or personality. i will not say either do or don't, as everything else, it workes for some, for others no

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