cigarettes

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 11 10:20:41 PST 1998


Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:


>When I was a teenager, my friends smoked 'cuz all the cool kids did it,
>and the chicks dug it. Fascination of the sublime had very little to do
>with it.
>
>Maybe I just had very shallow friends.

Why was it "cool"? The association with outlaws, danger, the forbidden, no?

And more young chicks smoke now than guys.

Doug



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