Worth 50,000: Day Twenty One - Send Up A Flare

[momebie]

Smoking is a terrible, horrible, no good habit. I am aware of this. And while I've never smoked cigarettes I did spend the better part of one of my college years smoking other things, which mostly landed me with lungs in an even worse state than they were when I started. People get really worried for you when you sound like you have bronchitis, guys. But all that said, I am kind of drawn to characters who smoke. Spike Spiegel smokes. As do Jean Havoc and Nicholas D. Wolfwood. The way they smoke can say things about them. The flare of the embers in the tip can send a small note of light into an unbearable darkness. And then there's the camaraderie. As Simon says in this week's Misfits, it's not fair that the smokers get all the breaks.

What horrible traits do your characters have, and what do they say about them?



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Comments

[basric.livejournal.com]

As a nurse who has been in an autopsy where the lung was segmented of a smoker, I find it repellent. I know American culture has made smoking sexy since the first movie was made, but when I see someone drawing smoke into their lungs I cringe inside because I know what it is doing to them.

That said, being a hypocrite I have smoked my share of the wacky weed before people who now sell it added chemicals to cut it with. I admit if it were legal I'd rather see someone smoke a joint than down a glass of liquor. And pure marijuana isn't as harsh on the lungs as cigarettes with tar and nicotine.

Destroy the liver with alcohol or the lungs with cigarettes, though drinkers usually smoke and do both..