Why did you start smoking?

[gdiversi]

All the smokers... tell us the reasons that you started smoking....

[80days]

For the best of reasons: Peer pressure.

[wordsworth7]

My mother hated it

[carlotta26]

Because I was stressed over my A-Levels, and I vaguely remembered having really, really enjoyed the buzz I got from having a drag on a friend's cigarette when I was 16... I bought one pack of Marlborough Reds(!) and would have just a couple of illicit drags a day, when I needed a distraction... one pack would last me a month at that point! and I thought to myself, nah, I won't get addicted or anything, this is just a short-term thing...

oh, the folly of youth

[jccards]

I started smoking at a very young age, my so called friend was a lot older than me, And asked me to try, So i did. Thinking i was all grown up!!! I didn't take it back for a long time, I was sort of pretending. Then this nasty girl must have noticed, because she threatened to kill me if i didn't take it back!!
So from then i have smoked!!!!!
TERRIBLE HABIT I KNOW!!! I WONT SMOKE OUTSIDE, TOO ASHAMED!!!!!!!

[jafarcakes]

But smoking is such fun. And so cool.
Some people are really good at it.

I don't smoke.

[UmbrellaMan]

I started because it was cool. I still think it is

[Highflyer07]

Hi,

same reason as UmbrellaMan, it's so cool, what can I say...

[sarathy123]

It is just the temptation that drives you into it. You see other people smoking, you want to try it yourself once and in the process get addicted to it.

[Owlperson2007]

Originally Posted by wordsworth7

My mother hated it

Always a good reason. If Louise's mother was to tell me to do one thing, I'd do the opposite. Her broomstick has just gone in for its MOT and I personally stuffed the exhaust pipe full of weed so that it makes an interesting smell when she turns the key in the ignition for them.

I have never smoked but put it this way, I know people who say they don't but do.