Is it me or is smoking cigarettes becoming cool again?

My DM was only 70 when she died - that’s nowhere near ‘extreme’ old age.

Yes but that’s the way it goes. I remember when tattoos /piercings were cool and very few people had them in mainstream society. Now it’s actually cooler to have virgin skin. Now is cool to smoke again instead of surrounding yourself with a billowing cloud of blueberry unicorn farts.

i loved smoking, really missed it and occasionally still do after a meal or when im on holiday. But the smell. I don’t miss that! Or the cost.

have not noticed this

I was just about to say this. I have one about to graduate and he occasionally smokes / his flatmate is a real smoker though. And one of his old school friends has smoked for years.
It’s sooo bad for you - my DM died of lung cancer - she smoked for about 20 years but had given up 28 years prior - damage must’ve been done by then. I keep on telling the DC that & havent smoked myself since she died (I was only ever a social smoker for about 8 years when pissed!).

My other son doesn’t smoke and thinks it’s disgusting.

Yes same here 🤦‍♀️ he says he has no intention of giving up. He’s otherwise a really intelligent, hardworking, clean living person. 🙁

My mum died from COPD. She was in and out of hospital during the last few years of her life.

It is a slow and horrible way to die.

My DP died of lung cancer aged 50. So did his mum and his brother. They were all smokers and had been since.they were teenagers.

If I could show those who think smoking is cool what his last days were like I think they would soon change their minds.

I say this an an ex-smoker.

Sabrina carpet, Charlii xcx all puffing away

I try really really hard to speak to my kids. I absolutely do not want them to smoke. But we’re talking about men in their 30s . We’re not talking about teenagers. There’s a big difference. As hard as I try to, I can’t influence grown men with their own lives and decisions.

I work in vascular foot clinic and spend my days taking smokers rotting feet off. Their teeth fall out too and they always get COPD and end up gasping for breath on oxygen.
The psin of vascular disease is one of the worst pains known to man and they spend their days on morphine.
Speak to your kids about smoking, its horrific.

£13.00 for the cheapest -Richmond soft pack for example. B&h gold is one of the dearest they are close to £20 but average is around £15 I’d say. In my place of work (supermarket) anyway

Smoking is very ageing.

Stroud is a weird place. I have a close relative that lives there and visit fairly often. So many incredibly rich people pretending to be hippies but don’t really get what it’s about and quite out of touch. They can’t actually explain their values - it’s like they’re all playing being hippies/ liberal/ left leaning. Never been anywhere like it or met people like it. Bloody strange place, wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was a bigger issue in Stroud!

Yes! I just noticed this the other day, having to pick my way through a crowd of smokers outside my office block, and was thinking “it’s unusual to see this many people out smoking, I thought no-one does that anymore.” In the past you might have seen a few people vaping there but not smoking.

Was this in Stroud? If so, I thought exactly the same thing. So many bright young things puffing away on their rollies.

I think it’s about time smoking and vaping were illegal in public spaces. Horrible antisocial behaviour.
Will loose appeal and be much better for health.

Yesterday Ive just remembered I saw someone standing on their doorstep smoking, young girl, heavily pregnant. I thought thats unusal to see generally, although in my job you see it all the time.

I don’t know any smokers. We have young adult children and they don’t know any smokers. I think it’s viewed as embarrassing to smoke.

I think most would agree that smoking is not nice at all, whether you're in the vicinity or are a smoker yourself. Lots of people who smoke would love to be able to quit easily, and I do feel for them. Not so much sympathy for the current "on trend" variety of smokers though.

I know we are talking about smoking related cancers, but I don't know, cancer is everywhere now and even non smokers get lung cancer - adenocarcinoma - non small cell etc. The explosion in bowel cancers amongst younger people is unreal lately and no one really knows why, plenty of theories but nothing definite. Most of them don't smoke. Baffling.

Well that’s the thing, I can imagine them thinking ‘It’ll never happen to me’ or ‘My grandfather smoked & he lived to be 90’.

But if smoking was generally associated with being a smelly twit then it would hopefully be less cool.

Which probably goes straight back out to treating all the problems it causes?

Smoking isn’t cool. It may be becoming more common but it’s never been cool. It’s bloody stupid and ridiculously expensive. Is that the definition of cool nowadays ?

Yes, I remember back in my skinny days when a black coffee and a cigarette was a satisfying breakfast. I wouldn't take it up again though.

Sometimes I wish I'd smoked as it may mean not living long enough to get dementia...😮