It's Dangerous and Stupid....But it is Cool.

Before you say nuh uh, I raise you an uh huh! People all over the world would not take up this stupid habit in the first place unless it was cool. It smells terrible, tastes pretty damn awful, and makes you cough when you start, so there has to be something more to it than that.

Case in point....



James Dean. The epitome of cool. Had he not died in a car wreck...in a Porsche (also cool)....before he was 22 who knows if he would have kept smoking. If he had, who knows what would have happened to him, but as it is he just carried on a legacy of cool.

Then there was Marilyn, who still defines sexy. She smoked too.  We know her story (or do we....that is a little tinfoil hat humor). Accidental drug overdose at age 36...so once again, who knows what would have become of her.


There are oodles more of them.  Fifty or sixty years ago there was substantially less information about the death and destruction that cigarettes cause.  Still, cool has already been defined.  The world is trying very hard to redefine cool as healthy, as something that believes in moderation and preservation, but it is going to take a long time to get from this.....

 And this....

to an entirely new picture of cool.  We'll get there though.  Luckily, I don't care about cool anymore.  I haven't cared about cool when it comes to smoking since about 1994.

Down one more pack today.  Only six more to go.  Eek!