http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257 Doing research for an article on teen smoking:&nbsp; how they get started, how they buy cigarettes, etc.&nbsp; Names will be changed to ensure privacy.&nbsp; Need 5 or 6 teens willing to participate. Doing research for an article on teen smoking:&nbsp; how they get started, how they buy cigarettes, etc.&nbsp; Names will be changed to ensure privacy.&nbsp; Need 5 or 6 teens willing to participate. en-us <p>When I was a young girl, it was very grown up and sophisticated to smoke.&nbsp; I remember buying a pack of&nbsp; cigaretts for 35 cents.&nbsp; We felt so grown up and modern to smoke.&nbsp; Clark Gable smoked, newsmen smoked.&nbsp; It was very&nbsp; much the thing to do.&nbsp; Now all of my idols have died from lung cancer.&nbsp; What a sad thing.&nbsp; Please tell these young people that smoking is a bad thing.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_197299 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_197299 <p>When I was a young girl, it was very grown up and sophisticated to smoke.&nbsp; I remember buying a pack of&nbsp; cigaretts for 35 cents.&nbsp; We felt so grown up and modern to smoke.&nbsp; Clark Gable smoked, newsmen smoked.&nbsp; It was very&nbsp; much the thing to do.&nbsp; Now all of my idols have died from lung cancer.&nbsp; What a sad thing.&nbsp; Please tell these young people that smoking is a bad thing.</p> <p><span style="font-size: small"><b>I'm not a teen but I was addicted to smoking as a teen.&nbsp;I started to smoke around 10 or 11. Stealing ciggies from mom. I smoked for 20+ years. I quit smoking about 7 years ago. Was one of the best decisions I ever made. My old lady still smokes and I watch with amusement her reaction to all the anti smoking hoopla out there. I work construction and cigarette free job sites are becoming more common. It's nice not having that habit anymore. There is a freedom that comes with quiting smoking.</b></span></p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_197371 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_197371 <p><span style="font-size: small"><b>I'm not a teen but I was addicted to smoking as a teen.&nbsp;I started to smoke around 10 or 11. Stealing ciggies from mom. I smoked for 20+ years. I quit smoking about 7 years ago. Was one of the best decisions I ever made. My old lady still smokes and I watch with amusement her reaction to all the anti smoking hoopla out there. I work construction and cigarette free job sites are becoming more common. It's nice not having that habit anymore. There is a freedom that comes with quiting smoking.</b></span></p> <p>I'm not a teen(I'm 49) but smoking was popular when I was a teen.&nbsp; My brother and I lived with my grandparents and they both smoked.&nbsp; My dad and stepmother smoked.&nbsp; As a child, it was disgusting to drive in the car with them, all smoking.&nbsp; I grew up is Ohio and during the winter all the car windows were shut and you could see the cigarette smoke haze hovering in the car.&nbsp; Trying to crack a car window would result in me getting yelled at as it was too cold to put it down.&nbsp; I sworn then I would never smoke a cigarette and to this day neither my brother nor me has.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_197391 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_197391 <p>I'm not a teen(I'm 49) but smoking was popular when I was a teen.&nbsp; My brother and I lived with my grandparents and they both smoked.&nbsp; My dad and stepmother smoked.&nbsp; As a child, it was disgusting to drive in the car with them, all smoking.&nbsp; I grew up is Ohio and during the winter all the car windows were shut and you could see the cigarette smoke haze hovering in the car.&nbsp; Trying to crack a car window would result in me getting yelled at as it was too cold to put it down.&nbsp; I sworn then I would never smoke a cigarette and to this day neither my brother nor me has.</p> <p>I am surprised that my asking young people not to smoke, because of the bad health things that can happen have upset people.&nbsp; What kind of town is this anyway.&nbsp; For someone to tell young people not to smoke should not be a bad thing.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_198813 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_198813 <p>I am surprised that my asking young people not to smoke, because of the bad health things that can happen have upset people.&nbsp; What kind of town is this anyway.&nbsp; For someone to tell young people not to smoke should not be a bad thing.</p> <p>jen what the hell are you blabbering on about now. Your comments come out of left field. Who's upset?</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_198979 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_198979 <p>jen what the hell are you blabbering on about now. Your comments come out of left field. Who's upset?</p> <p>I did not post the 2nd comment.&nbsp; I never posted the comment on 2-19 saying people should not smoke.&nbsp; The comment I posted was dated Feb 16, stating that in my day, smoking was glamorous and sophisticated.&nbsp; I am sorry that someone may be tampering with my comments.&nbsp; I never, ever touted people smoking.&nbsp; I only was thinking that smoking was always such a glamorous, grown up Hollywood thing.&nbsp; Unless someone posted something, or some comment trying to make me look foolish.&nbsp; I am sad that smoking has taken so many people from our lives.&nbsp; I truly dont believe that I said that.&nbsp; It looks like people thought I was being irrational, the dancing banana man seems to have something to say.&nbsp; If you look at my original letter, I was mourning the loss of so many of my generation, who looked at smoking as a sophisticated thing, who died horrible, undignified deaths because of smoking.&nbsp; Someone must have very much misunderstood my intent.&nbsp; It seems that when I said young people should not smoke, that now it seems like I said young people should smoke, which wasn't&nbsp; what I said at all.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_198997 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/MagickLady/21257/#c_198997 <p>I did not post the 2nd comment.&nbsp; I never posted the comment on 2-19 saying people should not smoke.&nbsp; The comment I posted was dated Feb 16, stating that in my day, smoking was glamorous and sophisticated.&nbsp; I am sorry that someone may be tampering with my comments.&nbsp; I never, ever touted people smoking.&nbsp; I only was thinking that smoking was always such a glamorous, grown up Hollywood thing.&nbsp; Unless someone posted something, or some comment trying to make me look foolish.&nbsp; I am sad that smoking has taken so many people from our lives.&nbsp; I truly dont believe that I said that.&nbsp; It looks like people thought I was being irrational, the dancing banana man seems to have something to say.&nbsp; If you look at my original letter, I was mourning the loss of so many of my generation, who looked at smoking as a sophisticated thing, who died horrible, undignified deaths because of smoking.&nbsp; Someone must have very much misunderstood my intent.&nbsp; It seems that when I said young people should not smoke, that now it seems like I said young people should smoke, which wasn't&nbsp; what I said at all.</p>