Smoking in Europe Is No Longer Cool

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6. After smoking for

a number of years myself, and quitting in 1996, I often wonder why I bothered with personal hygiene.

I mean, really. Who could smell BO underneath the stench of cigarette smoke anyway?

My daughter makes me laugh. She's a smoker. She can never go anywhere without showering and washing her hair and using cologne or perfume. I ask her why bother...Five minutes out of the shower she's got a cigarette and her cologne has turned to "Eau de Stink".

Anyway...with regards to the OP...when I was a teenager, smoking made us look "cool".

Now I'm 60 and whenever I see someone light up, I think, OMG...lame!!! Like someone else said, sticking a smouldering tube of leaves in one's mouth and inhaling poison into the lungs.

Yeah! Cool!