When and why did you start smoking?

Question

Supposed to survey people in person (so shhh).

1. When did you start smoking?
2. Why did you start smoking? (Friend, relative, by yourself)
3. What brand do you smoke? (Lights, Ultra Lights?)
4. Have you quit or tried to?
5. Do you agree with the increasing laws against smoking in public
5.

Answer 1

1.) When I was 15, started smoking a pipe
2.) Dad smokes a pipe, and I had access to pipes and pipe tobacco.
3.) Smoke a pipe and aromatic pipe tobacco.
4.) Nope, not addicted. Only smoke 1 to 2 bowls a week.
5.) To a extent, smoking should be banned from most work places. Not baned from bars and smoking establishments. Some bans ban smoking in tobacco shops (real stupid if you ask me)

Answer 2

I started smoking in high school when I was about 16 years old. Everyone else was doing it. We thought it made us look older and sophisticated. Before long, I was addicted, both physically and psychologically. I quit during 2 pregnancies, but started again. I smoked for over 30 years. Before I quit, I was smoking 2 to 3 packs a day. My husband and I quit together. We used patches to help. (The patches only help take the edge off.) We decided to quit after learning we already had spots on our lungs, and we both had a chronic cough. We also had visited the M.D. Anderson Cancer hospital in Houston. We saw cancer patients pushing their IV's outside to the parking garage to have a cigarette. We thought that was extremely sad. (But, if you are already dying of cancer, why give up smoking.) Quitting smoking was the most difficult thing we have ever done, but it was well worth it. Our lungs are clear, and the cough is gone. Smoking does not make you seem sophisticated to anyone. It makes you stink, your clothes stink, your car stink.....everything in your house will stink. When you wash your windows, brown junk will run down...the same stuff that is in your lungs when you smoke. I now agree with the laws against smoking in most public places like restaurants, shopping malls, etc. Where smoking is permitted, there should be designated smoking areas where non-smokers will not be subjected to the smell or the second-hand smoke.

Answer 3

1. Smoked regularly starting August 2004, but had smokes now and then while drinking before, very rarely however.
2. A lot of friends were, and spent a lot of time with them
3. Marbrol 100's
4. Yes, quit for 10 days while visiting family in Florida last Christmas.
5. Do not agree with laws against smoking anywhere. Pollution is everywhere, banning cigarette's is fascism disguised as sentimentalism

Answer 4

At 16 (26 now)
A friend smoked, I tried it and actually enjoyed the taste for some weird reason.
Camel Lights
Yes, I quit about a year ago.
Yes, i agree with the wave to go with non smoking restaurants. It is quite annoying to eat and smell smoke, yet I believe bars and clubs should remain smoking or nonsmoking by the establishments choice, not by law.

Answer 5

1. 14 years ago
2. self
3. Ultra-lights 120s
4. quit during pregnancy, then started right back up after baby was born.
5. Not sure....sometimes I think it's a good idea, but I think having smoking banned from bars/nightclubs, or other places where adults are practicing other stupid habits is stupid.

Answer 6

1. Smoked off and on in high school
2. All my relatived smoked and some of my friends
3. Malboro Lights
4. I dont smoke now
5. I agree with it being banned in resturants, but not in a bar or nightclub.

Answer 7

1. when I was 16 (27 now)
2. with friends , everyone else was
3. Marlboro Lights
4. Yes, quit 2 months ago
5. Yes

Answer 8

1.When I was 16
2. Friends
3. Camel Wide Filters
4. Many times
5. Up to a point when I can't smoke outside then it's not cool

Hope that helps..

Answer 9

1.when i was 17
2.myself
3.lights
4.i quit when i was 21
5.i agree with the laws as the public smoking causes inconvience and diseases to passive smokers.

Answer 10

i started when i was 17, because i thought i was cool, i smoked marlboro menthol lights, i quit two months ago :) and i totally agree.