I was a child in the 90’s, I found it cool. Hell, I still find the “last bent cigarette before going out in a blaze of glory” or the “smoking melodramatically in the rain” scenes in old movies to be cool tbh. Marketing, like nicotine, is a hell of a drug.
You’re taking a very weird offense to me saying it wasn’t cool. As I said, growing up amongst my friends, it was never seen as cool and I never considered it as such. Of course, it might help that we all had family members who were affected or ravaged by their smoking.
I don’t think nor was it implied anywhere that I’m morally superior to someone who smokes or does drugs. Everyone on this planet uses drugs in some capacity.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It was definitely cool in the nineties. Maybe you just weren’t?
ChexMax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I am so so sorry, but over 30 years already includes half the nineties.
That said, smoking still looks cool, even now, it just smells so bad it’s not worth it
mriormro@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I was a child in the 90’s but I specifically remember me and my friends being grossed out by them then.
None of my friends as I grew up found them to be cool either since, again, they smelled like shit and were pretty gross.
Cheers on your weird, displaced ego displaced though.
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I was a child in the 90’s, I found it cool. Hell, I still find the “last bent cigarette before going out in a blaze of glory” or the “smoking melodramatically in the rain” scenes in old movies to be cool tbh. Marketing, like nicotine, is a hell of a drug.
Cheers to your moral superiority tho.
mriormro@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You’re taking a very weird offense to me saying it wasn’t cool. As I said, growing up amongst my friends, it was never seen as cool and I never considered it as such. Of course, it might help that we all had family members who were affected or ravaged by their smoking.
I don’t think nor was it implied anywhere that I’m morally superior to someone who smokes or does drugs. Everyone on this planet uses drugs in some capacity.