Substances · Question 71 of 100

What “Smoked tobacco?” means

Item 71 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Smoked tobacco?”. Here is what the wording covers, where readers reasonably disagree about it, and exactly how much it moves your score.

Guidance written and reviewed 2026-07-26

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What the question is asking

Item 71 opens the substances category by asking whether you have smoked tobacco. The item sets no threshold at all, so a single cigarette at a party counts the same as years of daily smoking — a pattern that runs through the whole substance block.

Where people disagree about what counts

The obvious modern question is vaping. The checklist predates it and says tobacco specifically, so nicotine vaping without tobacco falls outside the literal wording. Takers split roughly evenly, and cigars, pipes, and hookah are usually counted since they involve tobacco.

The test is self-scored and nobody else ever sees your answer, so the only thing that matters is applying one reading consistently across the whole checklist.

How item 71 fits with the items around it

Items 71 to 75 are the drug run, ordered by escalation: tobacco, marijuana, harder recreational drugs, methamphetamines, and prescription misuse. Alcohol is treated entirely separately in the nine items from 76 to 84, which is the longest single-subject run in the second half of the checklist.

Item 70, before this one Gone on a date without a chaperone? Item 72, after this one Smoked marijuana?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 71 subtracts one point from the starting score of 100. Leaving it unchecked subtracts nothing, and no item on the checklist is weighted more heavily than any other.

Final score = 100 − total checked boxes

The final number never identifies this answer or any other individual answer — it is a count, so it discards which items were selected the moment it is calculated. Read the full scoring guide or look up an exact result on the 0–100 score chart.

Questions about item 71

Does vaping count for item 71?

The item names tobacco, which nicotine vaping does not contain. Takers are genuinely split, and the checklist predates vaping entirely.

Does one cigarette count?

Yes. The item sets no minimum, so a single cigarette satisfies it exactly as much as regular smoking.

Do hookah and cigars count?

Most takers count them, since both involve smoking tobacco. The item names the substance rather than the delivery method.

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