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I was 34 or so when I seriously started, there was a break of about 7 or 8 years when I took a break and let my tobacco collection age..
I was answering the guys question, and giving a tongue and cheek answer.
I couldn't care less about my title. Heck, mine says "Lifer" but I was absent from this forum for a couple years, so clearly not a "Lifer."
I was 16. It was the md 80's and I was a metal head with long hair and the ripped up jeans with Slayer tshirt. Blaring death metal in my car from a 3000w system with 2 12's all the while smoking my Dr Grabow.
I can't currently as I'm on my phone and I can't access PMs for some reason. Weird.
No worries. Just know my comment wasn’t directed at you. I’m just pointing out that you’re the one who explained the points/title to the OP.
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Ahh, that explains the sudden increase. I'll take quality over quantity.
love how unlike cigs it's all over the place. Cigs and dip seem to have a window that close in ones 20's.
Agreed. I was 12 when I started smoking cigarettes.
I was 9 when I started smoking cigarettes. Preoccupied parents and juvenile delinquent next door neighbors were to blame. The younger of the neighbors, who was my age, died in prison several years back. Their parents smoked so it was easy enough to get them. We would also get the occasional pack from vending machines, and if we were really hard up we would smoke butts scrounged from under the school bleachers.
I had already kicked the habit by age 12.
The friend that got me hooked on cigarettes (bought me my first pack) died in a motorcycle accident over 20 years ago. We used to scrounge butts when I was a teenager too. Yuck. I was about 19 when I quit smoking the first time around. Then I joined the military and picked up the habit again at boot camp. I didn't smoke any tobacco products for a decade, but as my 40th birthday approached I bought myself a Peterson 80s and some EMP. About 7 years in now.
15 or 16 probably. But that was having a pipe and trying it. Certainly not becoming a smoker. I worked at Chief Catoonah tobacco as a teen and the owner gave me a pipe ( that my poodle ate later). And he tried to introduce me to smoking. Well at the time I believe it was highland blackwatch that I smoked in the shop and I did it poorly and it made me drool. But I kept the pipe and I continued to work the shop without smoking it. But that was my first time trying this little hobby.
Tried pipe smoking briefly in my late 20s but didn’t stick with it for long. Pulled the pipes back out a year or so ago, at about 65, and have since been smoking them but only occasionally. Never smoked cigarettes other than trying them as a teen to look cool but never started regularly. Probably haven’t had more than one full pack of cigarettes in my life. I’ve gone through periods of smoking cigars over the years, but haven’t had one in quite awhile.
Tried smoking my first pipe at 14. Not an awesome initial experience, but liked it well enough to try again with a new Medico and some Borkum Riff. Liked it more, added a Dr. G to my "collection," and learned the ins and outs by smoking mostly in secret through high school. Thoroughly enjoyed my pipes and the quiet thrill of being a rare teenage pipe smoker. First year of college brought a new level of enjoyment: At 18, I could hang out in tobacco shops, buy better tobacco, and smoke as much as I liked.