Molaker
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I started "smoking" when a buddy and I found you could smoke catalpa tree pods. corn silks and grape vines (talk about "bite"). I then moved up to my dad's Prince Albert cigarettes...yes cigarettes. They came in a stack of two layers standing on end in a round tin of 100. I thought I had found a gold mine because how would Dad know he was missing a few cigs...yeh, right. When I "came out" in 1958 at age 16, I was working at a Safeway market and chose Lucky Strikes, non-filtered, of course and 10 cents a pack after I joined the Navy and went to sea. A few years later I was a Marlboro man and finished up with Merits - with a many cigars, pipes, OP's (other peoples') and an occasional chew along the way. I finally kicked it in 1998...40 years of puffing if you count grape vines, corn silks and catalpa pods. Interestingly, I never did try marijuana. Guess my midwest upbringing ruled that out. Who knows? I might try it yet now that it's becoming more "acceptible".