The burning question: why did you start smoking?
Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 9:25 Our new website Plain Packs Plain Stupid features a video, 'The Burning Question', that has interviews with smokers in Dublin.
Asked 'Why did you start smoking?', replies included:
“I started smoking when I was a teenager, probably because everyone else was doing it so I did it too to be cool, I suppose.”
“I started smoking because I was really young, had nothing to do, and all my friends were doing it.”
“I started smoking when I was 15 ... My sister smoked. There was no real reason why I did, I just wanted to try.”
“I started smoking at 28. I started because of a relationship, a girl. I’d just split up ..."
“I started smoking at 21. I was the social smoker relying on friends to provide the occasional cigarette. That became uncomfortable so I started buying my own packs.”
“I started smoking when I was about 17, way back in the late Sixties. It was a sort of daring thing to do in those days.”
“I started smoking … when I was 27 or 28. It was something different to do.”
“I started smoking when I started secondary school ... All my friends were smoking and I kind of felt I needed to fit in more.”
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Reader Comments (2)
Check here and scroll down. http://octabberresistance.blogspot.co.uk/p/were-not-quitting.html
Many of us were childhood smokers - not a single one of us started because of the colour or style of a pack of cigs. Neither did lying, scheming Anna Soubry and neither did the High Priestess of Hate Cecelia Farren.
You may recall Farren has said publicly many times that she began smoking because she was jealous of a pretty girl at school who smoked - and she quit smoking because she wanted to shag a bloke who didn't smoke. Never even once has she ever mentioned the colour of a packs of cigs.
Starting to smoke has nothing to do with packaging and these lying charlatans know it and have admitted it.
I'm terrified now Soubry is in defence. Which colour flag will she like best and which will lead her to take us to war on which side? The woman is incapable of making decisions if not led into it by colour and style. She's openly admitted it.
Hardly the calibre of MP we need at such a dangerous time with war in the middle east and Ukraine.
I started smoking at a very early age. There were no packets of cigarettes on display whatsoever, as there were cigarette boxes in all the main rooms offering filter or non-filter cigarettes. Had my first cigarette when I was 5 years old and was first caught when I was about 8.
It clearly stunted my growth as I only got to 6' 4" and about 28 stone.