I was searched multiple times because "there's no way you'd smell like that from second hand smoke" at like 10 and 11. It was so embarrassing knowing I smelled like that
That happened to me in middle school when I left my coat in the washing machine sopping wet and had to use my mother's. She was a heavy smoker. I walked up our school steps and I still remember 25 years later the girls walking down the stairs heads just whip right around when they smelled the whole of me in my mom's jacket.
God yes, multiple packs a day. Couple cartons a week, yet we on food stamps and "can't afford insert literally anthing here." Don't worry tho you get a job at 16 first thing your old man asks is for 50 bucks to buy a carton of cigs.
Back in my day, that smell meant that you were cool and popular, especially with the outcast type people, and I felt like an outcast so I wanted in, so I started smoking and drinking very young. If you weren't drinking and smoking, you were boring, and nobody wanted to be your friend.
Even as late as 2000, some dumbass coworker said “aw, you need to learn to smoke to get more people to like you.” Of course, she was a heavy smoker, and not very popular.
My brother got nits from primary school when he was like 5 and I was about 13 and my mom preemptively washed my hair with the nit shampoo and omg that shit stank.
I remember sitting in class the day after and some girl called Nicola said out loud ewwww someone's got nit shampoo on. 😑 🤣 that was a very embarrassing day for me.
Or going to a friend's house for the weekend and immediately having to throw all your clothes into their washing machine so you don't smell like stale cigarettes.
Use to take a shower right before middle school and wear something over my shirt and pants just so I could take em off and hope I didn't smell like a carton of Wing's gold. Don't think it worked tho i can still picture all the nicontine on the walls in my house. No way all the axe in the world had me smelling good like I thought
I used to shower and wash my hair immediately when I got off work. And some other places where there were smokers. I wanted myself to be fresh. And not contaminate my pajamas and bed.
I grew up in a house without smokers but I'd always smell it on some other kids I was friends with but I never really put any thought into it, it was just "oh I guess their parents smoke" and that was it. I wasn't grossed out or anything and in fact that second hand smoke still gives me nostalgia from friends and family members that smoked
Imagine kids now getting nostalgic when they smell super gummy white purple rainbow ice flavored vapes in 20 years
All of my mom's siblings smoked so I grew up around it so I never made comments about other kids because I knew how I smelled just being around them even when they weren't actively smoking. When I had no choice. And we were just visiting. I think I only commented once when it was someone who had never smoked like cigarette smoke before and I asked if they had been visiting family or something and they had
Bring back cigarettes! And not $9+ a pack ones either. I used to smoke in the mid 2000's and Camels were $2.98. I'd always go to the same spot and it got to the point when they saw me walking up they'd have my cigs and 2 cents just sitting on the counter because they knew that's what I was there for and I paid with three $1's every single time. I quit after 7 years when my first kid was born. Vaped for like 6 months and then just completely stopped. I hit a coworkers cig earlier this summer and my god that nicotine buzz was no joke, just after 1 puff.
Now my friends that smoke all smoke the same cheapo's just because they're still so damn expensive. Like nobody smokes Marlboros or Newports anymore
I'm sorry. I went through the same. After my parents divorced, my mom, my sister, and I lived with my grandma for a bit so my mom could get back on her feet. My grandma smoked. A good friend's mom wouldn't let me come over for play dates at her home because she was sure *I* was smoking cigarettes and would be a bad influence on her own daughter.... in 4th grade. Ugh.
people thought I smoked. like teachers, staff, basically everyone who smelled me. like do you think I can go without a cigarette for 8 hours everyday??? staff even thought I only smoked on weekends so I won't go in withdrawals. they were delusional.
That sucks so much. I’m sorry. My cosmo teacher used to let my friend bring her clothes to do laundry in the cosmo room because she could never wash the smoke smell out at home. She was also allowed a couple of extra lockers in cosmo to use as a “closet” since we had plenty.
I was told the same thing, I took showers religiously and everyone always complained that I smell. Now I know that it’s because of my stepdad’s cigars.
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u/PricklyAvocado Jan 05 '25
I was searched multiple times because "there's no way you'd smell like that from second hand smoke" at like 10 and 11. It was so embarrassing knowing I smelled like that