Puff

[literary_bamboo]

I love smoking. It invokes a kind of film noir elegance, and gives the impression of a common bond with the tortured philosophers and brilliant authors who measured out their lives in packs and cartons. There’s a certain dignity to the cigarette firmly but delicately pinched between fingers, with languid smoke slowly wafting into the cold night

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[lifeisacookie]

I hate smoking. Just hate it. Hate everything about it - especially how half my clothing is permanently infused with the smell of smoke from my father's never ending addiction. I think after graduation we even talked about how much i hate cigar smoke. Pipe smoke i don't mind as much - my uncle smoked a pipe when i was little, and pipe tobacco is much less abrasive to the senses.

As for the image...well...only in certain cases have i seen it add to someone's attractiveness. Certain people can pull it off - like i have seen a few photos of Robert Downey Jr where he can make it look cool. But generally it just seems stupid and unecessary.

Death in a box.

[aneededwhimsy]

"only in certain cases have i seen it add to someone's attractiveness"
Agreed. I find watching people smoke sad because it is so easy to see how addicted they are. I also hate walking out of a building and breathing in a lung full of smoke thanks to the smokers huddled around the door.

But, at the same time, I see how smoking is iconic. I've longed to lounge around with the Fitzgeralds in a Parisian bar, smoking, drinking, and swearing the nights away.

[literary_bamboo]

A friend of mine took up smoking a couple of months ago, and it was always so sad to see her get desperate for her cigarettes whenever she was in a bad mood or something didn't go her way. She was always so furtive and anxious whenever she lit up -- if that's not a drug addiction, I don't know what is.

[literary_bamboo]

Oh Lauren, you're no fun. What are you going to say next, that you hate dueling just because somebody might end up with a rapier in the gut?

Seriously, though, I dont know how I could put up with my dad smoking: my mom sometimes tell stories about when she was a little kid in the 60's, and the family would be driving in their car on a long road trip, and their parents would be puffing away at their cigarettes, and my mom and her brother would be practically choking, but they weren't allowed to roll down the car windows because her parents didnt like the cold.

No fun.

And Robert Downey Jr. -- is there anything he can't do and make it look cool?

:)