I'm an occasional smoker, and lately I've smoked much less cigarettes than I used to.
A few years ago, I used to ask for a cigarette or two on parties, usually when I was drunk.
I never liked cigarettes too much, but smoking one or two just to see what it feels like doesn't kill you, either...
Anyway, I then started to dislike cigarettes more and more...They stink, they make your breath foul, and the effects weren't that great either...Sometimes a smoke really helped to relax, which was nice and all, but most of the time it just made me dizzy and gave me an unpleasant feeling...
I knew I'd never become an addict for several reasons...Pretty much everyone in my father's family was a chain smoker when I was a kid, and even as a kid I was capable of seeing what smoking did to people...They were mostly in a bad physical condition, they were CRAZILY addicted to cigarettes, they had bad teeth and there was always a nebula of smoke surrounding them. My father smoked so much, I occasionally had to puke from all the passive smoke I was inhaling. And well, later I had some chain smoking class-mates in school, and they were just the same. I never got what kind of benefit smoking's supposed to give you in the long run. There just is none. Plus, it's just too expensive for my tastes. I never felt the urge to go out and get more cigarettes, even after smoking like half a dozen in an evening (which only happened once, I think...a girl I liked just kept asking me to smoke another one with her
), and I never had any of the side effects you get from a nicotine addiction.
So, I'm not thinking about buying my first packs of cigarettes any time soon. I know of better things to smoke