My first cigarette

My first cigarette

Often tobacco is the first drug people take, so let’s look at why people choose to smoke and perhaps it will let us explore why people choose to try drugs even when they don’t know how they will affect them.

If tobacco smoking was discovered tomorrow, it is unlikely that any responsible government would allow the sale of such a harmful drug. Today however 47.5% of men and 10.3% of women smoke a total of 6 trillion cigarettes a year worldwide.

    My first cigarette

    When I was a child the only smokers I knew were my relatives. There always was an uncle or a grandpa' friend who smoked. At family gatherings after  smoking outside, they always had a pungent and rancid stench about them. My uncle smokes only Diana, the same name of his daughter. Some years later, during my first year in high school, pillars of smoke always rose from groups of older boys, like many chimneys of the same house. Some classmates started to smoke to appear more confident and to have their own manner.. One of them was used to smoking, even the day I met him.

      My First Cigarette

      Having been an extremely sporty child, smoking was not something that I ever thought I would be involved with and there was nothing that I hated more than my dad having to open the car window to have a cigarette which consequently made the back of the car freezing cold, an issue that anyone with smoking parents could relate to.

        My First Cigarette

        Wine & Cigarettes

        I was about 13, and on a school trip to a wine region in France. We’d been on a tour of a vineyard, and at the end were allowed to buy bottles of wine “to take home to our parents.”

        Of course, back at the hotel that evening everyone just started drinking the wine together, and some of the girls had packets of cigarettes with them too. I remember that compared to the wine, which was tried first on its own, then mixed with orange juice, then discarded entirely; cigarettes tasted okay.

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            My first cigarette

            Brrriiiiinng brrriiiinng. The bells gone, hurray its break. To the canteen I head to indulge myself in a creamed iced bun. That was lovely. Then off to the toilet I trotted.

            'Hi Kelly, hi daisy’ I said . as I walked in they were standing there looking awfully mischievous. I walked into the cubicle. Suddenly a strong smell of a cigerrette being lit and a match going out was present.

              Why I smoked my first cigarette

              The first time I tried a cigarette was with a friend from school. Various members of my family smoked, whether socially or on a regular basis, so it had never carried the stigma of being an activity which was particularly frowned upon. However, I had always been told never to smoke or even try a cigarette as smoking was bad for your health.
               
              When I first tried a cigarette, I was not peer pressured into it by a group of friends, nor did I feel that I had to take up

                Man in Hoxton

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                A french worker based in Hoxton talks to us about his first Cigarette experience. To our surprise he started smoking at the age of 40.

                Often tobacco is the first drug people take, so let’s look at why people choose to smoke and perhaps it will let us explore why people choose to try drugs even when they don’t know how they will affect them. Upload your story to TalkingDrugs or leave it on our Facebook Group - My First Cigarette.

                  Charlie and John

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                  Charlie and John take us back to their adolescence days of school in Nottingham and West Yorkshire. They tell us peer pressure and following their friends got them into smoking cigarettes. 

                  Often tobacco is the first drug people take, so let’s look at why people choose to smoke and perhaps it will let us explore why people choose to try drugs even when they don’t know how they will affect them. Upload your story to TalkingDrugs or leave it on our Facebook Group - My First Cigarette.

                    James

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                    James from South London states in his own words 'my first cigarette was disgusting, but since then i enjoy it, it is apart of me'. Wow viewers  tell us what you think, raise comments and let out your first cigarette experiences.

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