What age did you start smoking?

Endurance Man · 14-09-2005 02:39PM #1

Alrighty, im very intereseted to find out what age people started smoking. If memory serves me right i was about 15

, im really ashamed of that tbh.

I am also curious about another fact, was wondering if you wouldnt mind adding this answer to your reply.
Did/do your parents smoke?
Thanks

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JungleBunny · 14-09-2005 02:42PM

Trying to quit myself at the moment.
Started when I was 14 :eek:

Both of my parents smoked but have quit over 3 years ago. I think my dad was smoking for about 30 years or so. He was a heavy smoker and did not find it hard to quit at all.

I wish it was that easy for me

AARRRGH · 14-09-2005 02:44PM

11.

Quit when I was 19.

Tis an awful, dirty habit. Think of the lungs god damnit!

biko · 14-09-2005 02:46PM

was 16

parents both smoked, in the car and house.

skipn_easy · 14-09-2005 02:47PM

12 but only about once a month for the next year or so. From about 13 onwards I was smoking 1 or 2 a day (but not every day), gave up for 2 years at 16, started again but never smoked really regularly - at most 5 a day, with plenty more on nights out.

Now, I don't smoke at all during the day, but will smoke close to 20 on a big night out. Neither of my parents smoked, none of my relatives smoke apart from my two brothers.

Eclipse · 14-09-2005 02:48PM

was about 15 I reckon. Neither parent smoked. 4 out of the 5 children smoked

joejoem · 14-09-2005 02:48PM

Its wierd, I smoke, and I smoked my lungs out all through my two week holiday, I got home on Sunday and havent smoked since. Dont feel the urge. Im smoking 9 years, and heavily.

threebeards · 14-09-2005 02:53PM

13 I think. I remember buyin 10 Carrolls and a box of matches. That was 19 years ago. I'd love to know how much I've spent since then on smokes. A quick calculation in the head says somewhere in the region of €20K :eek:

stagolee · 14-09-2005 02:55PM

smoked properly since i was 15 (a fair few a day every day) was having the occaisional one for a few years before that.
quit since i was 25 (i have the odd few blasts off someone elses when im pissed though).
my father smoked a pipe till i was about 12.

AARRRGH · 14-09-2005 02:58PM

threebeards wrote:

13 I think. I remember buyin 10 Carrolls and a box of matches. That was 19 years ago. I'd love to know how much I've spent since then on smokes. A quick calculation in the head says somewhere in the region of €20K :eek:

Yeah, Carrolls, they were the business.

I think we started smoking... "Gold Bond"? They were 98p for 10. We lit them in the local church (off the candles) and got chased by the priest down the road... LOL!

Ahhh life was so simple when I was young...

Dellgirl · 14-09-2005 03:03PM

i started when I was 14 and have smoked 20 - 30 Benson for the last 16 years.

6.25 x 365 = 2281.25 x 16 = 36,500€. :eek:

joejoem · 14-09-2005 03:06PM

Blingarella wrote:

i started when I was 14 and have smoked 20 - 30 Benson for the last 16 years.
6.25 x 365 = 2281.25 x 16 = 36,500€. :eek:

Prices have change a little. I wonder if you could work out an average price considering inflation n all for the last 10 years. Who is a mathematition?

stagolee · 14-09-2005 03:12PM

joejoem wrote:

Prices have change a little. I wonder if you could work out an average price considering inflation n all for the last 10 years. Who is a mathematition?

i would guess that considering inflation ,the euro changeover, and the interest that money would have earned had it been saved, it might well be scarily close to the original €36,500 figure

-oRnein9- · 14-09-2005 03:16PM

Smoked the odd one here and maybe 3-5 a day on weekends from age 11 - 14. Then it was about 10 fags a day from 15 til 17 and maybe 20 a day on weekends and when I was doing my leaving cert. just back from holidays recently bought 400 smokes in dublin airport came back with 20 after 2 weeks. Haven't smoked in a week though tryin to quit.

Neither of my parents smoke or ever have.

Sammyjo · 14-09-2005 03:17PM

I started smoking at 20 (im now 23), and am smoking about 20 a day. I know theyre bad for me, obviously, but i dont want to stop, so I know I wouldnt stay off them. I still love smoking!!

Neither of my parents smoked

jester77 · 14-09-2005 03:33PM

Tried it when I was about 15, didn't like it.
Tried it again while in College, still didn't like it. I really don't get why people smoke or what the appeal is. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth, clothes smell, fingers smell and go a dirty yellow colour!
I remember many a time when I was a young lad and I was at a disco pulling a young one the taste of smoke from her would be the biggest turn off...
But if that's what looking :cool: is all about so be it...

pdunno · 14-09-2005 03:49PM

only started at 25, not one of my parents or sisters smoke!!

14-09-2005 03:49PM

Been smoking since I was 12. Hasn't harmed me in anyway

Here's a recent pic

I still smoke 20 a day and love it. Really I do.

FranknFurter · 14-09-2005 03:54PM

*totally* embarrassed now lol
I had my first at age 9, and was on about 8 a day at age 10 LOL
hell, if I do somthing i really *do* it lol....

im 28 now, sheesh, that means iv been smoking... a LOT! lol

Megatron · 14-09-2005 04:56PM

I started Smoking when i was about 22 or so, just sort of started with a few while out on the lash.

20 a day since then ( 30 now).

Both my parents smoked, but my mum gave about 4 years after i was born,
my dad gave up about 15 years ago.

out of 3 brothers 2 sisters , only 1 brother smokes and 1 sister.

Mossy Monk · 14-09-2005 05:34PM

started at 14 or 15 and after 10 years of smoking stopped 3 weeks ago \o/

both parents smoke

azezil · 14-09-2005 05:59PM

Never so much as taken a drag, seeing what did done to my sister was enough to turn me off ever considering it.

(cought her when she was 16, made her eat the pack and repeatidly smacked her head against the floor.... ah such loving parents)

Tar.Aldarion · 14-09-2005 06:02PM

wondering why somebody would start at 22+?
one day ya go,'hmm i think i will start now' or just because your friends do?

Mossy Monk · 14-09-2005 06:12PM

my brother started at 22

county · 14-09-2005 07:23PM

think i was about 16,28 now and still do it,need to give it up big time

Kernel32 · 14-09-2005 08:34PM

I was 12 when I started but it took a year or two to build into a full habit. I was 24 when I stopped. My dad never smoked but my mam did smoke but not consistently. She would smoke for a couple of years, then stop for months, then back on them. At one point my mother, myself and my two brothers were all heavy smokers. Then we all quit over the course of a few years. Now my younger brother started back on them after about 5 years of being off them.

Dizzyblabla · 14-09-2005 09:12PM

I started when I was 16... I liked the Dizzy spells! My mom smoked til she was pregnant with my older brother, she hasn't since... That's 30 years!

Endurance Man · 14-09-2005 09:33PM

Hmmm, interesting, thanks for all the replys

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This smoking buisness is just such an evil swisted circle

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I think it starts with your parents, iv have found with my many m8's that smoke, that most of there parents smoke. The info above would also give you that impression, most of your parents smoked, im sure that is transferred onto you.
You then begin to smoke at a young age becuase your m8 does and your buckle under peer pressure, not helped by the fact that you probably already crave them to a very small degree

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You then smoke, pass it onto your children and the cycle starts again.

This is just the way im seeing it, i could be very wrong :rolleyes: .
Very interesting

rainbow kirby · 14-09-2005 11:31PM

I don't smoke... was scared off by seeing my grandfather in the last stages of emphysema when I was 9 years old. My little brother smokes though, he's smoked since 14 (he's 18 now) and he's on Niquitin now trying to give them up because he's getting repeated chest infections.

popinfresh · 14-09-2005 11:45PM

I was smoking since I was 12, but only once a week kind of a thing back then. I started smoking regularily around 15/16. Then I quit last week. I had to, I was on 50 a day, and I'm unemployed ATM. I just went cold turkey.

Oh and my dad used to smoke but he quit a year before I started.

TomTom · 14-09-2005 11:54PM

Started at 11, silly eh... I was not a completly regular smoker until i was 12 or 13. My parent had a shop and pub so access to them was easy. Was off them for 4 moths this year but got wated on holidays and went back on them. Want to give up again but need to get into the mindset to do it.

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