I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a smoker for about 20 years.
I never allow myself to be pressured.
I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.
My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.