When I was a kid I hated the fact that I smelled like cigarette smoke and a stuffy house, and thought people judge me for it.

But in my mid-to-late 20s, I started smoking on my own. Yes, I started smoking when one of my friends from college (I was still getting my Criminal Justice degree at the time) offered me one. But no, I don’t blame them for my cigarette habit. I chose to take that cigarette and smoke it. Peer pressure? I don’t know her.