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Freaky or Fabulous? Colorful Cigarettes

Mon, 04/28/2008 - 12:00pm by FabSugar
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This Hollywood Dreams editorial in April's Flair magazine makes me want to pack up and head South to where the sun do shine. It doesn't hurt that it features one of the naturally sexiest models out there, Flavia Oliveira. I'm not endorsing smoking (I promise, Fit!), but doesn't she look way cool with those Nat Sherman rainbow cigarettes? I suppose it would have been fine to use regular white smokes, but the fact that they're pink, green, and super skinny makes it more fashiony. I know you once said smoking in editorials is not fashionable, but are colorful cigarettes freaky or fabulous?

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  • infamouspopee's picture
    infamouspopee
    2

    Honestly I'm disgusted. Why do we continue to glamorize smoking? And seriously what is the target demographic for colored cigarettes, seems like something a pre-teen might be into...

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • aimeeb's picture
    aimeeb
    3

    I don't care if you put rhinestones on them it's still disgusting.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • silly3's picture
    silly3
    5

    I don't think they're Freaky, but smoking is not Fabulous, whatever the cigs look like.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • RoyalBlueMoss's picture
    RoyalBlueMoss
    6

    PERSONALY, Smoking doesn't bother me at all. If you want smoke, smoke, if you don't, don't. These coloured ones are pretty badass for a photo shoot if you're going to involve smoking at all.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • rlindz's picture
    rlindz
    7

    I agree with Infamouspopee...thats disturbing and disgusting.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • syako's picture
    syako
    8

    I wouldn't mind smoking either if it wasn't proven that second-hand smoke kills...

    I just think this is in bad taste. But whatev.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • AMP's picture
    AMP
    12

    anything to do with cigarettes is a big fat FREAKY to me!

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Sun_Sun's picture
    Sun_Sun
    13

    *sigh*
    i've been thru quite a bit with my husband and his smoking/quitting/smoking/quitting
    so i've just about had it with cigarettes
    i dont like these
    "oh look kids, colorful pretty cigarettes"

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • zapatosnuevos's picture
    zapatosnuevos
    14

    So many people smoke in the fashion industry -- including models. And I think the target demographic is me because I was wondering where I could pick up a pack of those.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • jem's picture
    jem
    15

    how many more chemicals can we add to a cigarette to change their color!
    absolute marketing to the younger generation!

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Kalliefornia's picture
    Kalliefornia
    16

    Not freaky but horrible! Way to help make smoking acceptable, by making colorful cigarettes that can match your outfit. Cigarettes are not an accessory. I dated a guy for three years who was a pack a day smoker, so I have pretty strong feelings on the matter.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • ckeller825's picture
    ckeller825
    17

    Georgetown has the pink cigarettes...I think they're called "Pink" and the box is glittered. Haha. I had to buy a pack just to say I had pink cigarettes.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • FoxyJo's picture
    FoxyJo
    18

    Nothing pretty or colorful about smoking! I guess except for the yellow teeth it gives ya!! LoL!!

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • emalove's picture
    emalove
    19

    These ads have a cool '60s French girl vibe to them.

    Yes, smoking is a bad habit, but seeing them in ads don't really affect me one way or the other.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Francoisehardly's picture
    Francoisehardly
    20

    I have to admit I voted fabulous only because of how it looks. I still don't smoke and hate cigarettes though.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • bastylefilegirl's picture
    bastylefilegirl
    21

    The color of the cigs isn't the real issue although it's "great" marketing for young girls! X(

    My issue is why are they highlighting smoking in a fashion style spread, we all know that smoking can potentially cause some life threatening illnesses why promote it anymore than it is already promoted.

    SHAME SHAME!

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • anaid's picture
    anaid
    22

    why are you talking about cigarettes? shouldn't it be about the clothes? I see better things in that shoot than the colored cigs!

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Rnicolew's picture
    Rnicolew
    26

    What?! Are you guys crazy?!?! Smoking cigarettes made of diamonds and pearls isn't even cool- don't you get it? Hell to the NaW!!!!!!!

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • ahles's picture
    ahles
    27

    Nat Sherman Fantasias... they've had those forever. Use to sometimes buy them in the mid-90s.

    That said, using cigarettes in a fashion ad is no different using heroin needles or crack pipes. From the cut of the clothes I'd guess they were shooting for a 1960s jet set vibe where everyone and their cousin smoked, but again, it's like throwing in a needle and a tourniquet into ads for clothes from the mid-1990s. You can evoke an era and a style without glamourizing it's vices.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • tiabia's picture
    tiabia
    28

    I actually think the cigarettes go with the 1960's feel of the photo...which sort of makes it fabulous.

    But the glamorization of cigarettes is just FLABBERGASTING. There's nothing fabulous about something that has the high possibility of killing you...that's just freaky.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • leeluvfashion's picture
    leeluvfashion
    29

    Freaky.

    I am strongly against smoking. While the cigarette may make the photo more interesting; this is why women go out and smoke one, because it's considered fashionable. Really?
    So... cancer, yellow teeth, raspy voice, age spots, wrinkles, loss of firm skin and smokers breath is fashionable... I'll pass on this lasting trend.

    23 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • brittanyk's picture
    brittanyk
    30

    Why are we still glamorizing smoking? It kills people or at the very least, negatively affects your health. Ugh.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • luvluvg's picture
    luvluvg
    31

    Freaky! It doesn't matter what color a cigarette is, it's still a cigarette!

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • tkoblondee's picture
    tkoblondee
    32

    Nothing about smoking is fabulous, why don't you show some other colors......black lungs perhaps?

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • pinkmystic's picture
    pinkmystic
    33

    I said freaky cause smoking is bad for you...
    but I have to admit that they look fabulous

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • nyc-sugar's picture
    nyc-sugar
    34

    whatever. if you smoke you smoke, if you don't whatever its your life, but even thou i smoke socialy i think is a bad idea for young teenage girls to think that they should smoke because a model looks cool. am not saying the model doesn't look good but it promotes a bad role model for girls.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • Jessiebanana's picture
    Jessiebanana
    35

    a. She is too skinny and unsexy and b. smoking (no matter how colorful) is extremely unfabulous.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • allthingsgrow's picture
    allthingsgrow
    37

    I think it's cool!

    (And, contrary to my icon, I do not smoke. I was just fooling around one night with the camera and grabbed my friend's cigarette.)

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • leahtron's picture
    leahtron
    38

    well they aren't any different than other cigarettes. i guess if you want to shell out the extra 2 bucks just to have your cigs match your outfit, they're pretty cool.

    and don't even tell me you anti-smokers don't do anything unhealthy.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • rosey_y's picture
    rosey_y
    39

    Ugh. Is that how simple and easily misguided we are? Put some color on them and suddenly we're all like, "OoOOoh! Look at da pwitty colors!!11!". Please.

    At first glance I had hoped this post was satirical.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • mlmoreno47's picture
    mlmoreno47
    40

    Smoking is disgusting. And leahtron a lot of things are unhealthy but not as blatantly obvious as cigarettes. Walking into traffic will most likely kill us so we don't do it. Why people continue to smoke confuses me and don't try to tell me I wouldn't understand because I used to smoke and quit successfully with Chantix.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • supertramp's picture
    supertramp
    41

    From an artistic point of you the photos are bad, but I see where everyone is coming from because I can't stand it when people smoke around me. I can't stand to watch someone kill themself before my eyes, its horrible. And by the way the model looks way too skinny in that second photo.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • berrymix's picture
    berrymix
    43

    The photos would still look fab even without the ciggies. They were unnecessary.

    23 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment