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14. Newsweek: Smoking Is Cool Again Among Gen Z

https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-social-media-celebrities-cigarette-smoking-11149726

Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/29/smoking-cigarettes-trend-generation-z

The big picture: Something's shifted. Young people are talking up smoking again, and celebrities are casually lighting up on screen. Experts worry that they're not paying attention to the dangers of addiction.

- Films and TV shows are bringing cigarettes back as props, too, making them en vogue once again.

- More than half of the top box-office films released in 2024 featured tobacco imagery — marking a 10 percentage point jump from the year before, according to a report from public health nonprofit Truth Initiative and NORC at the University of Chicago

You'd be hard-pressed to miss cigarettes across pop culture.

- Dakota Johnson lights up in the dramedy "The Materialists." The chefs on "The Bear" smoke regularly, with season 3 featuring Carmy's efforts to quit.

- Sabrina Carpenter takes a puff a cigarette with a fork in her "Manchild" music video.

-The Instagram account Cigfluencers posts old and new photos of celebs — including Charli xcx, Natalie Portman and Leo DiCaprio — taking drags.