Smoking, cool or not?

I was shocked to discover in last weeks lecture just how much smoking has been a part of society through the years tobacco has been manufactured. I have never been a smoker, and i don't really agree with it but it's weird that in many films where i have idolised characters, a lot of them have been smokers. Such as Brad Pitt's character, Tyler from Fight Club who is cool and kind of quirky, i never realised that a lot of his "coolness" resides in the fact that he smokes. It is funny because Fight Club is not such an old film yet it still depicts smoking in this "snazzy" way despite the health risks being fully known in today's society.

For more information on smoking in films, take a look at the website, http://www.tobaccofree.org/films.htm, where there is an in depth discussion about the issues of smoking in media.