smoking is bad, kids

[asimplechord]

I had fic to beta-read and fic to write yesterday after I ran all my errands, but what did I do? I procrastinated. I read Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain and I went through my "unsorted pics" file. I found a bunch more of people in glasses and shades, and a fair number of people sucking on cancer sticks.







Hunter Thompson wouldn't say so, probably. Cigarettes are always in the background for his characters.


Hot pin-up girls and actresses like Rita Hayworth agree.


So does James Dean.


What does he know, though? He died young.


So did she. *waves*


I'm not even the world's biggest fan of Brad Pitt, but still.


Uh-huh.


His wife? lover? signficant other? agrees. Actually, I think she's more attractive, although I am not a passenger on the Brangelina Train of Hotness.


This guy? I'd ride *that* train. Cancer stick or not.


I don't watch LOST, but I'd consider it if Naveen Andrews smoked on the show.


What?


Yeah, that's what I thought.


I love a hot bath and a glass of wine. Apparently he likes 'em, too. eta: But with absinthe instead.


But you know, there's something about cigarettes (or other smoke-ables) and musicians.


Clapton named an album after them!


O.o What a waste.


There's a reason his voice sounds so gravelly and scratchy, folks.


I have a ridiculous number of Bowie + cigarette pics.


Some are art.


Most are not.


What? At least I limited it to four!


Bob Bryar what?


If Frank ashes in his hair, Bob'll dump him on his ass. He's been warned.


I think this was taken *after* one of the interviews where he said he'd quit. AGAIN.


Who does he think he's kidding?


Can we see a trend here?


Frank is never going to quit.


Too bad I couldn't find the gif of him sucking a cig down and then tossing it before he went on stage. There's something about him + Pansy...


Smoking + asshole shades. Oh, Frank.


Guh.


And his wife has excellent taste, as well. Except for the whole smoking thing.


There's nothing I can say.


Mostly I'm amused that the band needs a smoke break mid-set, and GWay *still* comes back with one in his hand.


Wut?


No, really, what?


One of the few pictures wherein I find Tom Conrad smoking hot. Literally. Mostly I think JWalk is prettier, but here? All Tomrad.


I'm not sure who's the bad influence here. I love how he's got his hand down, almost hiding the smoke, and Shane's right there in the background.


It's not just bandom band boys who look pretty in a cloud of smoke, it's the Gallaghers also.


<.<
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Kat, if you don't quit that you'll end up like...


...this guy.

But that's okay. He's smoked so much dope that when he dies, we'll cremate him and smoke his remains, and the entire Western Hemisphere will be able to get high.


ETA:

I know he's said that he will quit. Perhaps he has already? So this might be a photomanip. Either way:

The rockstar of politicians and his tobacco addiction.



Got more? Spam me with them in the comments. I know somebody's got a HQ copy of that pic of Ray and Gerard smoking up, having a gossip fest behind a venue. (I couldn't find it - must be on the other computer.)



OK. Now I'm going to go to a baby shower. A couples baby shower. For MrIris's best friend. By myself, because MrIris had a stupid business trip. Yay.

Hopefully when I get home I'll feel inspired to write notskeezygabe fic.

Happy Sunday to you all!

Comments

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

IDK. I know so few people who smoke anymore, other than one if we're out at a bar - and not even that so much since Houston is non-smoking now - that it hasn't been a big deal with any of the pregnant women I've known. Some of them still drink alcohol and coffee, but they limit their intake. And honestly? Dow (in Texas, not corporate up in Michigan) does random drug tests; if you aren't there to pee in the cup inside 20 minutes, you automatically get suspended without pay for two weeks. So most of them are not doing anything harder than cigarettes.

Hee, if they did, I can imagine the pair of them counting days til birth, excited for the baby also wanting a cigarette SO BAD.

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

The attitude here is a lot different. I hate to see pregnant women smoking and drinking and other stuff while they're pregnant -- I had someone tell me once that she was so nauseous all the time when she was pregnant that she smoked pot in order to calm the nausea enough to eat, wtf -- but I hate even more to see people smoking while holding an infant. I know someone who used to smoke while she was nursing, and there are times when I've gone to pick up Rachel from her grandma's & the smell of cigarette smoke on her clothes/hair/carseat was enough to make me gag. Blech.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Even the people I know who *do* smoke, once they had kids, it was only outside. That is just WRONG. Damage your own lungs, but don't damage someone who is a captive audience.

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

When my ex dumbass & I were still together, I used to refuse to take the kids to his mother's house, b/c you could literally see the smoke in that apartment. She used to light one cigarette of another and seriously smoke all the fucking time.

Also, his friends used to hate coming to our house b/c I'd make them smoke outside, no matter what the weather. Most of them thought I was a bitch. But my kids have always been healthier than their kids, so Idc.

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

Not my thread, obviously, but both of my parents smoked all through my childhood (still do) and one of the reasons that the doctors think that I get/had pneumonia and bronchitis every year is that.

I've flat-out been told that my chances of lung cancer if I ever start smoking are pretty much astronomical because of the damage already done to my lungs. :/

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

My grandmother has serious lung damage, to the point that she needs oxygen, because she grew up in a house with smokers and a coal stove and had pneumonia every winter, and then my grandpa smoked a pack a day. It wasn't until the doctors made her wear an oxygen mask that he stopped smoking in their house regularly. He wouldn't do it while grandbabies were in the house (like, toddlers and younger), but he did all the rest of the time.

I was reading, and I wish I had kept the link, an AMAZING example of the health effects of smoking. Two towns ~15 miles apart, most of them employed in the same companies in the surrounding area, and one banned smoking in all public places, while the other did not. Heart attacks and congestive heart failure dropped by some amazing percentage over the next few years, down by 75% or something. And the only difference was the smoking ban. It wasn't in a science journal, so I don't know if it was real, but if it was...

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm torn on the whole thing because, for the most part, when people like my parents started smoking, everyone smoked, you know? It wasn't something that was considered bad or dirty or anything else and now there's this huge stigma and I know people who think that, considering the problems C and I have had with it (lung-wise), my parents' smoking was borderline child-abuse.

I don't think it is or was good for either of us and we've both got chronic lung issues and sensitivities that we probably wouldn't have had otherwise, but again, at that time, it wasn't considered. Now, yeah, they should both quit, but they're both so addicted. I don't know. ~shrugs~ It is what it is. Right?

That's an interesting article/essay. I know that there's a debate on the whole secondhand smoke issue, and how valid some of the numbers that are lobbied around are, but I think we can all agree that it's obviously better if people who don't want to breathe the stuff don't have to.