Is it me or is smoking cigarettes becoming cool again?

I noticed it in the states last year. Three different states (NYC was more weed than cigarettes tbh)

And I commented to my dsis a couple of weeks ago a lot of young people looking outside a bar

I'm a smoker. However 20 lasts me about 3 weeks but at one point was 10 a day.
I do vape now and hate that just as much.

I think they do, but it's "medical" marijuana spliffs. Many States have legalised cannabis which is still illegal here. And there's the fentanyl/opiates issue in the US also.

Nowhere is saintly when it comes to addictive substances!

I liked smoking, opening a new packet, hearing the crackle as you inhale and seeing the end burning away.
However it just absolutely stinks and I gave up many years ago. Vapes really don't have the appeal and tbh I think they could even turn out to be worse healthwise.
I am too rewatching This Life and remember that smoking was absolutely everywhere, including my college which had smoking and non smoking common rooms and the top deck of the bus!

It’s definitely coming back into fashion - there’s an account on Instagram called “@cigfluencers” which posts pictures of celebrities smoking and apparently looking cool doing it. 99k followers. It’s awful.

I live in the US, and thankfully this is not something I've noticed here. I rarely see anyone of any age smoking.

Im 39 and smoked years before any of the health warnings on packaging. I'll tell you now, if you're already a smoker, those 'smoking kills' packs are ignored. I know smoking kills but I like my cigs so I'll do what I want. I pay enough tax to do it 😅 that's why they'll never completely ban smoking, they take in way too much tax to look lose

Its having a come back

No idea why :-S

He doesn't love it. He's addicted to it.

I recently spent every day for 3 weeks visiting a dying relative in our local respiratory ward and every single person in my relative's section was an ex-smoker. They were all facing the end of their lives in a painful and degrading way. Perhaps all these people who think it is so cool should spend a few days visiting one of these wards.

Yeah go get lung cancer. That'll be so cool

vaping https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/5-truths-you-need-to-know-about-vaping
i sort of smoke i dont inhale and use a second filter every 4 cigs i use new one
only vice i have at almost 70 dont care ebay is my friend

The same with my adult kids. In fact the teenage version of them were horrified by smoking , and now my youngest son particularly,openly admits he loves it and will smoke forevermore!

DH and I watch a lot of TV. There was a lot of smoking on TV in the 90s, then it died down a lot in the 2000s but in the last tenish years there's been a very very noticeable uptick in characters smoking on screen. I always point it out. DH is very patient (!). Usually there's no reason for the character to smoke - there's no plot point, no back story, they just smoke. I wonder if something changed in the background, some sort of barrier, legislation, something that encouraged more smoking on screen. Once you pay attention you'll notice it everywhere. It has a subtle but significant effect on people when they see 'cool' people smoking, or people using cigarettes to relax, calm down etc.

The cool is the Old Movies vibe (and I'm not talking 90's, I'm talking Bette Davis, Bogart and Bacall) where everybody looks elegant and one can smell nothing.
Of course the Russians still smoke like crazy and thus the gorgeous young man (the actor is in fact a Texan) on Heated Rivalry.
Actually, come to think of it, it is all Ilya's fault.

Stinking like a filthy ashtray isnt my idea of cool neither are brown teeth and yellow fingers. Yuck.

When my daughter went to Uni she was shocked how many people smoked in her halls. (They are Mumsnet naice halls at a Russell Group uni). She hates it as it breaks up the party when everyone leaves to go out for a smoke. Her bedroom is right by the smoking area too. I don’t know how the afford it tbh.

@likelysuspect Just to add, re. the traffic lights, I don't take any notice of those either. I watch my calories to maintain my weight, so I just look at the calorie value and decide whether it's something I can fit in and whether it's worth it if I'd have to cut something else out. I don't need someone telling me it's red, green or amber.

If it is, it's yet more evidence people are getting more stupid.

I have just rewatched this life too ,smoking was everywhwere in the 90,s pubs,clubs restsuraunts
I qualified as a mental health nurse in 1996 and the main lounge for patients was for smokers, staff had a designated smoking room hard to believe now.

I'm an ex Smoker (15 years). I was well aware I looked 'grubby' smoking but I did not give one single shit, as I was addicted to the nicotine not the smelly shit they put in it 🙄

I doubt anyone buys them because of the picture, more that, as you say, it doesn't deter, and some of them are quite interesting, I'm always pleased when I get the blackened lungs.

I laughed at that last bit 😅😆😅

Nope, not unexpected if his peers etc. are doing the same..

My 20 something son smokes and honestly I’m really quite shocked. For a long time it was (thankfully) considered dirty and disgusting. There has never been smoking in our home or anywhere in his life so it was unexpected.