To think that smoking looks really, really cool?

[aperolspritzbasicbitch]

To start, I know it’s not, I know it’s dangerous, I know it stinks and is a horrid habit. I’m not going to start.

but equally….I’d bloody love to take up smoking 🤣

I just think it can look so chic, especially the skinny little European cigarettes.

I love the idea of sitting out with a glass of something, puffing on a little cigarette.

having a mid morning coffee outside a cafe on a cobbled street, cigarette in hand.

Or, the original ozempic…a cigarette and a can of Diet Coke of lunch.

like I said, I’m not going to start, I don’t like the smell and I’ve also been very vocal on my views on vaping.

but, at the grand old age of 40, there’s still something about it that I look at sometimes and think ‘god, she looks cool’

Think Caroline Besette in Love Story.

When I was at school (around 14/15 years old)the smokers would collect up dog ends and half-smoked cigarettes from the pavement to smoke. Or they’d steal them from family and brag about it.

Because of this I’ve always seen it as totally skanky.

And in primary school there was the token ‘smelly child’ who’s parents didn’t care they stank. Which is just really sad.

The 80s and 90s have a lot to answer for.

@TheLightSideOfTheMoonwhat does the token smelly child have to do with smoking?

Er, really??

I think it looks sad, in every way.

The smelly child stank of cigarettes smoke…

Smoking in films etc used to look cool (1950s era). That's because we don't have smell-o-vision! Like a PP, my parent smoked and it put me off (thank goodness)..

Maybe it's something to do with that old advert "you're never alone with a Marlborough". You're never have to hang around, being awkward, perhaps being stood up. You are always doing something. Now we have phones to occupy us instead.
Also, there is the veil of smoke which adds mystery and intrigue.

It can look cool - from a safe distance - but the reality is nothing like..

I'm 37. Both my parents also worked in hospitals and were seriously anti-smoking.

Because they stank of stale cigarette smoke.

I just see a crippling and ruthless addiction. It took me so long to quit and I was so grateful when I got to the other side of it. I see people smoking now and I just think - thank God I don't have to do that any more.

I am old enough for the chickens to be coming home to roost for my contemporaries who were life long smokers and it is heartbreaking. Seeing the struggle to carry out everyday tasks with emphysema - just awful.

Quite an irresponsible post, really.

It can look really cool (I always think Slash from Guns n Roses in his 20s) but, in reality, it's harmful to the health of the smoker and those around them, and people that smoke stink of cigarette smoke.

@thejelliclecatsthe smelly dc in my schools smelt of various things but not smoke.

@thejelliclecatsIm anti smoking but still think some people looked cool doing it.

Because hoards of impressionable grown adults are going to take up smoking based on a couple of people on line saying it looks cool?
they’ll just bypass the ones that disagree and think ‘well, if Aperol says it’s cool, I must do it!’ Will they?

I think the exact opposite. Always have done. It's revolting. And sad.

@aperolspritzbasicbitchyou’re peer pressuring me.

Im actually quite surprised by some of the responses particularly when you compare it to the drug threads.

Yeah, I agree. It does look cool. I’ve always found the smokers to be the coolest and most fun.

Well, if you want me (and you know how influential, cool and powerful I am) to think you are cool, you best spark up instantly 💁🏻‍♀️🤣🤣

I’m quite surprised too. Not at the people who don’t think it looks cool, obviously. But at the ones who purposely opened a thread about smoking, read the part when I said I know it’s dangerous, yet still comment about the health implications. We know. We ALL know.

As a smoker i think smoking looks hideous! I hide in my garden to have a ciggie and would do anything to turn the clock back and not have had my first cigarette.I would never glamorise it, it's a n addiction that I wish I had never tried 😔

I fantasize about sitting outside a cafe, reading a novel, smoking a rollie and having exceptional thoughts. In reality thats probably a bit of a fire hazard and smoking is GRIM. But if it wasn't, I would. I'd also like to while away my evenings in a big chesterfield armchair with a whisky and a cigar. But unfortunatley I hate both.

This.

People who look cool smoking look cool fullstop.

I just can't see what's remotely cool about stinking like a stale ash tray.

@thejelliclecatsTbf in many of the nightclubs I frequented the smoke smell was preferable to the other smells!

^I love the idea of sitting out with a glass of something, puffing on a little cigarette.
having a mid morning coffee outside a cafe on a cobbled street, cigarette in hand.^

Yep. Do it all the time.

Better than a friend of mine's MIL who tripped down the stairs and was dead on arrival.

Life is strange.

What’s cool about literally burning your money? Apparently, some cigarettes can cost nearly £20 a packet. £1 per cigarette.

Not to mention, as everyone has, the smell, the yellowing, the danger to health.

that was part of the idea behind the marketing of the products back in the day to get people intrested

Yeah I loved smoking and I miss it all the time. The quiet solitude of making a rollie. That first drag after work. Sat in the garden under the stars with a cigarette and my thoughts. It's been almost 10 years and I still crave it. It really is as great as you're imagining. Of course there's no peace or calm or glamour in dying of lung cancer, so don't do it. But I can see why you want to.