You were sailing East Blue seas on your way to the Grand Line, so you stopped in Loguetown to make some last preparations to enter the Grand Line.

Tashigi: "Smoker, can you please just stop working and rest a little? You're killing yourself!"

Smoker: "I'm perfectly fine, I'm doing my job even better than before. Most pirates now just give up without fight rather than get infected by me."

They kept arguing, so you just decided to walk past them, but they noticed you.

Smoker: "Hey, kid, are you a pirate?"

Tashigi: "Smoker, don't! Just take some rest!"