Tag Archives: Older Adults Smoking

40s Smoker

Jessica Laskowski: Jenny, 48, started smoking at age 18. She explained she started smoking “to fit in with the rest of the group."

Older Smoker

: Amber Fairweather: Ramone Cruz, 50, started smoking at the age of 12 because of his friends.

: Jessica Laskowski: Carole Parrish, 60, started smoking at age 45. “I don’t know. I guess it became a nervous thing. I was going through a lot of stuff when I started smoking.”

Older Smokers

Jared Gruenwald: “I’ve actually just started smoking. I was never a cigarette smoker but in my line of business everyone smokes cigars, that business being affluence, of course,” chuckled 44 year old stockbroker Walter Kiley. “A fine cigar is the token of the rich man, and I feel it’s my duty to smoke them.”

Older Smokers

: Steve Gengler: 54-year-old Jim Thomas didn’t start smoking cigars until he was in his forties. “I started because one of my buddies was really into them and he got me hooked,” said the native South Philadelphian.

: Colin Lenton: Ken, a 47-year-old artist, had been smoking for 30 years. “I’m not embarrassed, we’re all going to die some day and I enjoy smoking.”