This study investigates correlates of smoking behaviors among 290 students in a Mississippi Delta middle school and how these adolescents identify their own smoking behaviors. Self-identified "regular smokers" were more socially exposed to smoking, and reported more indications of habitual smoking than "non-smokers," "once in a while smokers" and "ex-smokers." These differences could lead to intervention studies that, in addition to traditionally categorized regular smokers, recruit adolescent smokers who do not identify themselves as regular smokers, but who nevertheless exhibit behaviors characteristic of regular smokers.