SP!KED: Young adults have finally found a way to resist the miserable diktats of our nannying elites.
Smoking, if you haven’t noticed, is suddenly cool again.
‘Is smoking making a comeback?’, fretted the Guardian last week. In the paper’s characteristically joyless tone, it reported that models at a recent runway event in Norway had strutted the catwalk cigarette-in-hand. We also learn that there’s even a popular Instagram page called ‘Cigfluencer’, which is dedicated to sharing photographs of the rich and famous having a cheeky toke. The Bear star Jeremy Allen White, pop sensations Dua Lipa and Charli XCX, and fashion model Bella Hadid are some of the A-listers who have recently been papped fag in hand – all people in their twenties or early thirties who ought to know better, in the Guardian’s eyes.
When walking the streets of a city like London, it’s hard not to get the impression that the humble dart is enjoying a comeback among the youth. You can see the evidence for yourself at almost every pub or café: hordes of young people lighting up like it’s the Sixties and dressing like the Nineties. Smoking is what Gen Z might call a ‘vibe’. » | Hugo Timms | Monday, August 19, 2024
My visitors will know that I have been calling for smoking to be made cool again for a very long time. I must have had my nose in the air! Even though I no longer smoke, I am sick to death of reading about, and listening to, health freaks telling us how we should live our lives and what we should do, and shouldn't. I have always lived by the adage 'live and let live' and I shall continue to do so. Life is a journey. It behoves us all to enjoy that journey. We never know when our time is up. – © Mark Alexander
