Comments on: When Smoking Was Sexy

By: geoff and rose

geoff and rose — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:24:20 +0000

they say the three best things in life are a drink before and a smoke after!
once it was usual to light up and share a cigarette after sex, we’ve got lovely memories of this with our early lovers; smoking in bed was sexy once…
R&G X

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:54:11 +0000

Shudder. Sorry, Prippy, saying something doesn’t make it so.

Obviously it’s an area where tastes differ, and that’s fine, but there’s a huge intergenerational difference of opinion on this one.

By: Prippy

Prippy — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:10:18 +0000

Oooh…. but smoking is still sexy darlings…and its getting even more so now…..you just have the wrong pic

Check out a googly immmmmmmmmage for classy Marlene Dietrich

;)

By: LiamN

LiamN — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:48:50 +0000

Food is an even stronger drive than addiction to smoking. You can quit smoking, you cannot quit food.

You don’t have to sell eating, people have to eat. So, there’s your hook. Then, just like the tobacco industry treats their tobacco to make the nicotine more addictive, you pump up the addictive qualities of foods by filling it with sugar, salt, and fat, but don’t worry about the nutritional qualities.

Then not only do you get to sell people the food they eat, you get to sell them the vitamin supplements they need because the food isn’t nutritious or truly statisfying, AND you get to set an unreachable goal of being thin while eating these foods and sell them all the diet and exercise products they need to try to reach that goal.

Oh, and you get to sell them cigarettes that help supress their appatite as well. :)

By: Tetsubo

Tetsubo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:44:44 +0000

I always find it depressing when I see an attractive woman smoking. Whether in real life, a model doing a photo shoot or on film. I could charitably be described as militantly anti-tobacco. If I could will tobacco out of existence, I would.

By: remittance girl

remittance girl — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:04:47 +0000

Personally, I find it kind of sexy in a subtly kinky way. There’s something very sensual about the whole act of drawing the smoke into your lungs. The fact that it is, in all likelihood, going to do you lasting damage carries a particularly strange, 19th Century romantic fatalism.

Hugs,

By: Ashera

Ashera — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:23:11 +0000

Actually, food is sold by sex; just not in an obvious fashion.

Look at the people toting foods in ads. Do you see fat, happy, people enjoying a meal? Nope! It’s all skinny, attractive people chowing down. If you’re not convinced yet, just look a the Food Network. How many chubby chefs and show hosts do you see? Not many.

Why? Wouldn’t you want people to think your food leads to being well-fed and happy?

Actually, the reasoning is because “Fat” has become equal to “slob” in the USA in the last century. Gone are the days of chubby apple-cheeked girls being considered “pleasingly plump”; people want to see skinny people as skinny is glamorized much as smoking was though ad campaigns and a deluge in the media. Thus, to equate their food to “will keep you attractive” the food industry show skinny people with their products. It’s always cheaper and easier to make an ad following popular belief than to change popular belief.

By: nobody

nobody — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:41:38 +0000

Bley’s,

I can think of a few more foods, but you hit number 1 on the list. Whipped Cream, Stawberries, cherries and maybe even sugar if added to the whipped cream and/or strawberries).

By: alex99a

alex99a — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:59:19 +0000

When I look at that pic, I don’t notice the cigarette that much…. but I do think she’s about to stick her finger up her nose.

By: Bleys

Bleys — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:41:44 +0000

What you’re missing is that tobacco is a drug, and it makes you feel sexy, even if you’re not. What the adds are trying to imply is that their brand more perfectly conveys that satisfaction.

The analogous food advertising is the folksy mascots for what is marketed as home-style cooking or comfort food. Sara Lee, Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben, and others, are appealing as familial elders that bring exactly the kind of food that reminds you of your childhood, along with a generous helping of old-timey racism.

The food people haven’t made found a way to market highly processed and enriched food that will make you fat, except by suggesting that it is somehow the same that your grandparents were eating. When and if they do find a way, it probably won’t be with sex, since that doesn’t translate well to food culture, which is so family centered.

Not everything is better with sex: cigarettes are, food isn’t (except chocolate).