To say smoking does look cool?

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Yes, I know inhaling thousands upon thousands of cancerous chemicals definitely isn't cool!

But there's something about some people lighting up a cig and looking into the distance that looks rather cool and 'suave' to me

I always picture having a deep conversation with a mysteriously handsome but dark horse of a person, looking far into the distance as they respond to my dilemma "That's life, Soph" or some other talk that included clever sayings that I can never think to use at the right moment.

It looks cool.

My executive assistant aunty use to look very classy sitting with her legs crossed and smoking a cig, whilst listening to my dilemmas
I just want to put it out there that I've never so much as taken a puff of a ciggy

Ugh. YABU, it's rank.
How does it look cool? Remember Kathy Burke's character Waynetta Slob?
Yeah. Kind of looks like that. Not cool. "I am 'avin' a faaag!"
It absolutely stinks, makes the smoker stink.....
Nope.Not seeing how it looks cool at all!

It doesn't. It bloody stinks.

The pic dilby posted def looks cool. But not everyone who smokes looks cool. You have to be cool in the first place to look cool smoking.

god yes it was and did look cool no denying

It used to, in films at least.

I remember having a paradigm-changing moment, about 8 or 9 years ago. I saw a young woman, dressed in an interesting, self-conscious, cool way, waiting at a bus stop. She conveyed cool elegance with a bit of je ne sais quoi. Then I saw she was smoking a cigarette. Bubble burst. She looked like a try-hard twatty young fool.

Not a cat in hell's chance of that ChinkChink.

I agree with you OP.

I'm not going to lie, I first slept with DH because I thought he was really cool (and smoked), however 18 year old me was far less classy than I am now!

I quit smoking about 8 years ago and I miss it every time I have a drink, if it wasn't for the health implications, costs etc I would still smoke 1000%

They might look cool but by god they stink!!

Looks like the person doing it is stupid to me. Plus it stinks

It’s cool

It’s cool.

Agnes has it.

If you're cool, then almost anything you do is going to look cool.

But cool is a rarity off screen.

Ha ha that photo looks like fag ash Lill!

I think it looks cool and all the best songs are about cigarettes, nick cave, tom waits, kd Lang... I am not cool therefore never took up smoking

I’m a massive anti smoker but I agree OP when beautiful people light up seriously cool!

You won't look cool when you're coughing you lungs up or dying of lung cancer.

I like to see a middle aged, manly academic type with a pipe you never see pipes now though.

Nothing Compares 2U was apparently about giving up smoking.

I gave up when I was 27. I still miss it.

Fag ash Lil is what comes to my mind when I see people smoking

We all know it stinks and is bad for your health. But it does look cool.

I know what you mean OP.
I quit years ago but when I save humanity from destruction, I will so walk out of the flames and pause to light up.

Are you by any chance the kind of person influenced by advertising?! This has been the aim of tobacco company advertising since forever

I'm too young for this - the only smoking advertisments I'm aware of is sperm on packs of fags

High five to those agreeing with the car reversing thing

Chandler said smoking is cool

And what a fictional character says is good enough for me

I'm no help whatsoever

Nope. The smell is horrendous.

I used to think it looked cool (on occasion) too. But nowadays I hardly ever see anyone smoking in public, and when I do it's people who look pretty dodgy/rough as f*ck. They don't look cool. They look desperate, impoverished and fed up. Not cool.