A disproportionate number of women on dating sites are smokers. I even see "trying to quit". As desperate as I am, I never select those.

Not only did most people smoke, they could smoke almost anywhere.
I NEVER smoked, except for the G-D second hand smoke. Hated the smell.

I started around 13. When I turned 16 my parents gifted me an ashtray (most likely to avoid whatever flammable receptacles I'd been using in my bedroom) with a note that they disapproved but wouldn't be hypocrites about it, so I was permitted to smoke around them after that.

I was pretty consistent at a pack a day until my late 30s when my husband and I decided to quit before having a baby. I'd always said I wouldn't smoke while pregnant but I hadn't realized I already was on the day we quit, so I'm not sure which symptoms were withdrawal and which were pregnancy, but I never went back, in part because it was the hardest thing I'd ever done and I didn't want to go through it again. I still miss the feeling, but not the smell.

Apparently actors Loved cigarettes because it gave them something to do with their hands and their loss was a major problem for them.
I go to karaoke at this one place (VFW) where everybody smokes inside and I REEK after 5 minutes in there....in fact 2-3 days later I can still smell it on the inside of my car...great people, great DJ, great acoustics, but they're losing me over it.

I quit 10 years ago. I was never a heavy smoker and smoked 'clean' tobacco; I rolled my own using tobacco that did not have additives.
I'd just bought a new tin of loose tobacco and I was about to roll a smoke when I just went, 'I don't feel like doing this any more'. An that was that.
Now I find I am very allergic to cigarette smoke, I break with hives, have an asthma attack and it triggers my IBS.

I quit in 1993 when my wife was pregnant with my second son, prior to that I smoked 20 cigs a day, one pack of Senator Cigars and a pipe on an evening.
Thinking back I must have been trying to commit subconscious slow suicide.

I started smoking at 14 years old.

I smoked from the time I was about 15 off and on and full time after I turned 16. I was in Belgium at the time, but Marlboros were readily available. Smoke some Gitanes too! Quit once for 11 years, then started again. Quit the second time probably 30 or more years ago.
Funny watching the old serial TV shows from the 60's where everyone was smoking everywhere. Doctors and nurses in the hospitals, cops and rescue workers, in restaurants, houses, buses, planes... seems so weird seeing them now. Johnny Carson on the Tonight show had one in his hand almost the entire show.

Nope not a smoker, but I watch old reruns on TV sometimes and am shocked at how everyone has a cigarette in their hand in every scene. I guess the shows were sponsored by the tobacco industry back then.

Now, very few people I hang around with smoke, but visitors come from all over the world and want to smoke here in Hawaii. Smoking is not allowed on the beaches or within 20 feet of doors and windows, so they all go out to the exercise path and smoke. I have to hold my breath when walking by the smokers, sitting underneath the "no smoking" signs.

I do have some friends who smoke, they try and try to quit, but just can't. There's one fellow I see as I'm walking every evening. We pass by each other going different directions, me toward the log I like to sit on, and him to the log he sits on to smoke his evening cigarette (since it's not allowed where he lives.) He always asks me, "still single?" and I reply "yes, still smoking?" he says yes, and we go on our ways, haha, kind of a harmless little ritual we do, harking back to our first conversation some time ago.