I do not smoke cigarettes. My mother did, quit long long ago, my father did (has since quit), and my brother does.
In high school I simply didn't have the money to afford that habit. I smoked pot. Since the vast, vast...vast majority of my friends and classmates did, I would go out on breaks with them to the smoke pit and chat with 'em, maybe take a puff every now and then and get a nauseating nic high. When it got to 40 below (celcius) in winter, it was too f*cking cold, friends or not, I'm not freezing my ass out there for nothing.
From then, and up to the present, the only time I puff is when I'm piss-ass drunk (again, just a puff or too for that dizzying feeling) or (well, not anymore) after a doobie. Socially.
I've never smoked one cigarette in it's entirety, and in my lifetime, have probably only had the equilivent of, say, five smokes.
And now that there isn't that "pressure" to start smoking, and I have the money to afford it now, if I so chose...I can spend my money on booze instead!
Oh, on a side noe, in Junior High, the "cool" kids (group of eight or so, I think) would to and share one cigarette (don't know if they even finished it), and use cheap colonge as mouthwash to hide the smell. Yup, sure glad I'm not cool