My grandfather (who smoked for over 40 years) told me not to, when I was about 13 and he'd heard I had already tried the occasional JPS.
At the time I didn't listen. I now wish I had.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 15 Nov 2012, 20:54, 1 reply)

Problem is, and this sounds like a lame excuse, which it isn't,
that in the 70s and 80s, smoking was more acceptable, and there were none of the restrictions on marketing that there are now.

I started when I was a teenager, and at the time, everybody smoked, fags were advertised on TV and every other medium. People would say 'Tsk, nasty habit', and that's about it.

I still smoke, and I'm pretty much all in favour of the moves to get cigarettes out of view. I wish I hadn;t started.

About cost - I've found the solution is to smoke rollups. They cost about 1/10th of the price of normal fags, and they're fiddly and annoying to roll, so I tend to smoke less of them. I travel just about enough to always be able to grab them in duty free. I spend about £5 / week on smoking.

If I wanted to smoke like I used to, 20 silk cut a day, I'd be really pushed to afford it.
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