Reply #25: That sounds like Virginia in the 70's

[demnan]

when I went to school. Though I didn't start in high school. My brother started then and smoked and still does, a lot.

I started in college. A friend and I would share a pack of cigarettes. Pretty soon I was buying my own. But I quit when I had to take swimming. No one wants to be out of breath swimming.

I started up again and quit again. Then when I was out in the working world I started again the day Ronald Reagan was elected!!!!!&*#$&!@*&@#$!@#

I quit again 6 months later. I was 23 when I finally gave it up.

Now after 25 years, I still crave a cigarette now and then.