All his friends smoked; it seemed like the cool thing to do.

"Who I hang with, me, my friends, we smoke," she said.

Her friends said she was nervous and smoked too much.

My friend who died doesn't smoke, never did.

And young John and a friend "smoked" the coach.

Vickie's friend Katherine, 46, has smoked intermittently since her college days, but she limits it to specific times and places.

His friends smoked illicit cigarettes and sneaked off to the pictures after hours.

"My one friend smokes like a pack a day and has all sorts of tricks to cover it up," she said.

I knew it would be hard, because my best friend smokes, and we spend a lot of time together.

If your best friend smokes, it makes it very awkward.