It's extremely rare that I smoke and usually when I do I am around family that is smoking. Second hand smoke is worse than actually smoking so any issues I develop will more than likely be from that than the 4-5 I've actually smoke so far in my life.

I almost started smoking when I turned 18 though. I was having issues coming to terms with the fact that I was legally an adult. I didn't feel any different and had already been living on my own for a few months so it just didn't seem like a big step. Buying a pack of cigarettes was something I couldn't do before so I decided I was going to buy a pack to prove to myself that I was an adult. It sounds stupid looking back on it now, but at the time it made sense to me. I never got to smoke the whole pack because my boyfriend at the time threw a huge fit and it wasn't worth the fight. I am thankful for that now. Keeping reptiles is expensive enough for me without buying cigarettes, buying them for my sister before she got a job out here was horrible and she was smoking less then because I wouldn't buy her more than a pack a week.