Why Smoking WIll Become Cool Again
October 13th 2008 13:20
... or else be banned everywhere.
I'm in two minds about the future of smoking. On one hand, life is all about cycles. Lets go back a ways... smoking wasn't cool a while back. A cigar, sure, but not smoking. In my mind, it started becoming cool with James Dean. He was just such a cool cat, and cigarettes went hand in hand with that. Fast forward to the 90's, and the whole grunge scene. I don't think I knew a grunge kid who didn't smoke, and I don't think I've seen a Nirvana poster where Kurt doesn't have a cigarette. Back then, everyone I knew smoked. It was the cool thing to do.
Nowadays, smoking is on the way out again. You don't want me to smoke near your baby, which is fair enough, but surely if I'm standing on the side of the road you can walk around me you lazy bitch and not glare at me for smoking near your kid, even though you could see me standing there from halfway up the road (not bitter at all here). People are all concerned about the health risks, and smoking it seems is being cast out of mainstream society once again.
So, who's going to keep smoking? Of all the people I know, the ones that won't quit are the manual workers and the badasses. The cool kids don't smoke anymore. Girls aren't into it anymore, so why would they? And guys... well, guys would chase anything that moves, so it doesn't really matter so much the other way around. But the market workers, the truck drivers, the gang members, they aren't going to quit, probably until they drown their own lungs in tar. And it might stay that way, at least for a while. But like I said, life is all about cycles. One day, another James Dean is going to come along, and he is going to make smoking the cool thing to do again.
Then again, I am in two minds about this. Its either going to get big again, or the politically correct health freaks are going to win and deny us our god given right to smoke our lives away. Then again, I'm on the 'legalize everything' bandwagon, so you should really take that with a grain of salt.
I'm in two minds about the future of smoking. On one hand, life is all about cycles. Lets go back a ways... smoking wasn't cool a while back. A cigar, sure, but not smoking. In my mind, it started becoming cool with James Dean. He was just such a cool cat, and cigarettes went hand in hand with that. Fast forward to the 90's, and the whole grunge scene. I don't think I knew a grunge kid who didn't smoke, and I don't think I've seen a Nirvana poster where Kurt doesn't have a cigarette. Back then, everyone I knew smoked. It was the cool thing to do.
So, who's going to keep smoking? Of all the people I know, the ones that won't quit are the manual workers and the badasses. The cool kids don't smoke anymore. Girls aren't into it anymore, so why would they? And guys... well, guys would chase anything that moves, so it doesn't really matter so much the other way around. But the market workers, the truck drivers, the gang members, they aren't going to quit, probably until they drown their own lungs in tar. And it might stay that way, at least for a while. But like I said, life is all about cycles. One day, another James Dean is going to come along, and he is going to make smoking the cool thing to do again.
Then again, I am in two minds about this. Its either going to get big again, or the politically correct health freaks are going to win and deny us our god given right to smoke our lives away. Then again, I'm on the 'legalize everything' bandwagon, so you should really take that with a grain of salt.
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