rockers who are still chain smoking in the '18

xp wait, when did people think it was healthy to smoke cigarettes?

when the army issued them to GIs in WWII, when doctors made ads that recommended them, when practically everyone on film + TV did it etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUZI0vE0FM

so yeah, about half a century ago, when the tobacco industry was successfully addicting a huge percentage of an entire generation to its product

But most of of the people we are talking about in this thread were born much later than that. I'm not denying that smoking is on the wane among adults, just not sure about the idea that older folks are suddenly successfully quitting en masse.

The biggest incongruity in the film Alien isn't the 70s technology. It's that in the year 2122 people in a spaceship are puffing away as if it's 1979.

A bit from that movie The King's Speech has stuck with me for nearly 10 years: trying to cure the speech impediment, a doctor suggests smoking cigarettes: "Soothes the throat." Sounds absurd, but at the same time, not implausible. It made sense in context. I think about that a lot - what common wisdom we take for granted today is actually completely wrong.

“i can’t believe no one has mentioned x” is probably my least favorite sub genre of post but keith richards should be the first name here.

just not sure about the idea that older folks are suddenly successfully quitting en masse.

you don’t think it makes sense for people to make health related lifestyle changes as they age?

Of course it makes sense, I just think it's easier said than done. I'm wracking my brain to trying to think if I know a single adult who has successfully quit smoking (though I know many who have tried and failed, including my father)

Anyway, this hijack / derail seems like a more appropriate topic for ILE, no?

Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) definitely still smokes

― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 2:25 PM (four hours ago)

ha last time I hung w/him he said he does it almost as a matter of principle

I'm not denying that smoking is on the wane among adults, just not sure about the idea that older folks are suddenly successfully quitting en masse.

uhhhh of my friends who are approximately my age or older, maybe 20% smoke, 20% never smoke or will have the occasional cigarette, and 60% are former smokers

wracking my brain to trying to think if I know a single adult who has successfully quit smoking (though I know many who have tried and failed, including my father)

my mother quit in the 1980s so that cancels out your entire sample

it is possible that some of my friends will return to smoking prior to death, but like sic's mom, my grandmother quit in the 1980s and is dead now, having never taken smoking back up

Ariel Pink?

(my dad transitioned from pack-a-day of cigs to half a cigar or two a day, but died in ‘94. half a dozen + of my high school friends started smoking in the ‘90s and quit or dropped to a drunk fag a few times a year by their early ‘30s.)

The Coug obv

robyn

not a rocker, but rules

sic’s post contains a striking reminder of the “U.S. vs. British vernacular” lesson

FP’d both you and sarahel for racism

I'm wracking my brain to trying to think if I know a single adult who has successfully quit smoking

Though not a rock star, Eric Wagner who was in doom metal gods Trouble and now is in doom metal supergroup The Skull is a huge smoker who still chains on stage.

http://battlehelm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/skull2.jpg

idk if he is a rocker but a recently saw a promotional photo of Richard Pinhas with a cig hanging out of his mouth. smoking is one thing but being photographed for promotional purposes while smoking is a whole other level.

I smoked for 14 years and have quit for 16. I just had a strange experience looking at the old ad posted above - looking at the woman smoking at the end I suddenly thought you're doing WHAT? WHY would you do that? - smoking itself looks so weird to me now.