After all, there has been countless solid studies - and just plain common sense in today's age - that smoking cigarettes as a normal, every day activity is just plain stupid.
If we shame others for eating meat and processed food and all that comes with it (moral, environmental, health), despite the human body actually having a good mechanisms to re-calibrate itself to fight off the long term effects of said food, it's a double standard to allow smoking to go into the shadows and live care free.
If actresses are concerned about their health, so they eat "healthy" and go to the gym weekly, it's amusing that they suck up nicotine like it wasn't a health hazard. Did they forget? Probably not. Do they care? Probably not. It's their Oreo cooke, but if we're being honest give me the processed Oreo cookie over a cigarette get to together. You'd think out all of the activities that are deemed unhealthy smoking would be the first one to be avoided but no.
If we're going to talk about "being healthy" then we have to acknowledge that alcoholic drinks - wine, beer and whiskey are "soft" drugs, which can do more damage to your body than, say, eating a pop tart every other month. The difference is how alcoholic drinks are viewed within modern society versus junk food and meat.
Let's be honest: cigarettes, despite its old depiction of those who smoke being sexy, are ultimately seen as skeevy. Usually those who smoke tend to be lower-middle class if not working high stress jobs (corporate world, restaurant industry). The need to smoke isn't born out of a vacuum; it's usually learned - either a parent or friend or coworker did so they pick up the habit. There are of course cases were models smoke in order to keep their weight, which oddly enough is a bizarre of living life, but it's. more of a turn off of smoking a casual cigarette "just because." Smoke makes your clothes smell, it makes your mouth smell and you heck aren't healthier afterwards. At least with the Oreos I can brush my teeth and exercise.
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