I come from a long line of smokers... My mother smokes, my father smokes, my stepfather smokes, my grandmother smokes, my aunts smoke..I could go on and on....
I grew up in a smoking household. And when we visited family, or friends they were smoking households too. My fondest memories was when we stayed at my grandparents house, later then usual, and I got to stay up and watch all the adults play euchure and have a couple drinks listening to oldies. I found it amusing if someone was getting tipsy..All the while sitting on my grampy's lap, while he had his hands full of cards, and a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. Fanning infront of your face to get the smoke out of your eyes was somthing I did, not even thinking about it. I remember complaning to my mother when we went on long drives about the smoke in the car.
A little later in life, I remember looking up to women who smoked...They looked so sexy, and mature, and...well everything I wanted to be when I grew up. That clip of Olivia Newton John, at then end of Grease with thoes black spandex. ...(spandex!!!! OMG!!! LOL) and she was smoking...she looked HOT!!
I watched all my family have babies, and still continue to smoke while pregnant. Nothing bad ever happend to the babies, all my cousins were very healthy babies.(I am the oldest of all 11 of my cousins) Ive never known my mother or father to try and quit smoking, actually only 2 of my family members have quit. It was almost like the norm for adults, and I really think I already knew, back then, I would be a smoker.
The first cigarette I ever smoked was my mothers... I was probably 13 years old. My mother had just left my father and we moved out of the city. She still worked in the city, so she had an 1hr 30min commute...She left at like 6 am to make it on time for work. So I had to get myself up and ready by myself.
My mother always butted out her (what i like to call them) Bi**h sticks, and there was almost ALWAYS more then half left over. Now that I think back, I was in a new school, and wanted to be cool...a rebel ...i liked the sound of that "look" Guys liked that type of girl too... So I kept on taking her butts, not all of them at a time, but once and a while. I got caught with cigarettes a few months