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Human beings are natural pattern seekers, so seeing Chainsmoker Cat and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You releasing in the same season gets our neurons firing. Major economic shifts and global pandemics can result in golfing anime escaping a seventeen-year release drought, so is it out of the question that greater forces are behind a…

Japanese people used to beone of the heaviest smokers on the planet,so cigarettes have always appeared in anime. But rarely as an object of focus. They were simply too commonplace for that, so they became part of the background until Japan did a 180 on its smoking culture, heavily regulating all things tobacco, like severely…

In the first-ever episode of Mad Men, the ad executives of Sterling Cooper are trying to figure out a fresh new way to advertise Lucky Strike cigarettes after the recent revelations that everyone’s favourite pastime is causing cancer. One of the agency’s team members offers research suggesting that smokers are driven by a collective death…

Cigarettes are making an unexpected return to the spotlight as celebrities and social media influencers embrace smoking as a fashion statement, despite American smoking rates hitting their lowest levels in decades.

The pop culture-verse has rebooted cigarettes as the accessory du jour, health risks be damned. 27 Jul, 2026

July 27 —From beauty mogul Kylie Jenner lighting up on the cover of Vanity Fair to cigarette trays at singer Dua Lipa’s wedding, the pop culture-verse has rebooted cigarettes as the accessory du jour, health risks be damned

From beauty mogul Kylie Jenner lighting up on the cover of Vanity Fair to cigarette trays at singer Dua Lipa’s wedding, the pop culture-verse has rebooted cigarettes as the accessory du jour, health risks be damned.