Actually a curious fact in all this is that in the US, African-Americans have one of the lowest rates of tobacco consumption, although apparently it is rising now. The District of Columbia has a lower rate of tobacco consumption per capita than any of the 50 states. Barkley Rosser On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:20:41 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 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
>
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu