My mom told me that my dad smoked when they met/got married. Grew up on a farm, went into the army. Started some time in his teens and quit cold turkey the day she told him I was on the way. Think he would have been about 24 at the time, so not like it had been decades. He lit up a cigar a couple of times I know of when I was young - family weddings, I think. I believe the friend I mentioned quit for her 40th. I never took it up as a regular thing - just the occasional cigar. Been a few years since my last one.