I started smoking when I was 17 years old.
I had hoped to impress a certain girl.... and I did.
Back then cigarettes were everywhere.
People would lean on the sides of convenience stores and smoke.
Everyone smoked all the time.
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in fact, wherever you went you could rest assured that somebody would be smoking in the bathroom.
Movie Theater, Mall, restaurant.......it didn't matter. The bathroom was filled to the brim with smoke.
Wherever you were you could see somebody was irritated that they weren't outside smoking.
They would be in a rush to get outside as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
Cigarettes were a lot cheaper then and even though they had warning labels on them most people didn't take them very seriously.
After all, our fathers smoked and they didn't die from it.
It wasn't until several years had passed that people decided smoking was gross.
I can't even count the number of girls that I've kissed that had smoky breath and it didn't bother me back then. It would certainly bother me now.
I mean it's really a lot similar to just pouring a lot of ash in your mouth and stirring it around. Doesn't that sound disgusting?
It was a habit that I did every morning. Brush my teeth and then go smoke a cigarette. Drink some orange juice and then go smoke a cigarette.
Life changes and sometimes it changes for the better.
I'm glad the world we live in today isn't so full of smoke.
It's a lot easier to get by these days then it was back then.
