Malia Obama Is a New Menswear Icon

[Hekate]

43. Like her mother, this very tall slender young woman can throw on anything & make it look good. And...

To everybody, not the OP:

And as a non-smoker myself, let me just say: Please leave her alone. For gods’ sake, what’s it to you all? The general tenor is not one of true concern for her health, but self-righteous disgust with her as a person.

Both my parents smoked. I did not, nor did my sister. My brothers took up smoking — one was able to quit in young adulthood, but the one who started at age 12 was never able to quit and died of COPD at the age of 72.

My husband did not smoke. My own daughter started smoking at the age of 12 or 13, and is now 47 and has never been able to quit. My son — was able to quit, except he took up cigars around 40, so I gave him his great-grandfather’s humidor.

Think of how heartbreaking that feels for me and other parents. It’s legal — it is unhealthy as hell — the health risks go far beyond lung cancer and COPD. And everybody who isn’t a stupid school-kid knows it.