Smokin', I don't smoke but i know many people who do. It's not for me i think it smells like burn paper or something similar.Though I do like smell of cigars.
I don't care to be honest if people choose to smoke as it is there choice but i would tell people i know who would consider to start smoking not to or that it could be very bad for them when they get older.
After seeing many classic films from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s smoking back then was glamorised by Hollywood and was made out to be something that wasn't really that bad at all. More recently films which include someone smoking are films that are certified 12A + as i doubt you would see someone now smoking in a childrens films. Smoking in cinema was heavily used in film noir, gangster and thriller genre, shown in the pic with Humphey Bogart in the The Big Sleep (1946). In the 1940s smoking was very common because of the war and people smoked because it calmed nerves, so i guess in a way that is one good point for smoking, but not a very good one.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/films.htm
On t.v. in programmes like Eastenders and Coronation Street smoking is has always been shown heavily. There arn't any advertisment of cigerettes any more as the government is trying to clean up britain. Its all change now though with smoking being banned in public places like restaurants, cafes, pubs and bars etc...
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Doesn't Humphrey Bogart look cool with that cigarette? No wonder all the young men in the fifties wanted to smoke. It must av been great..nobody knew it was killing them, they were cheap, you could smoke where you liked...even in hospital..especially in the cinema..a golden age!
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