Smoking

[Noblejanobii]

*looks at thread, turns away, turns back, and sighs* Ah geez. How do I put this? Um… yeah I despise smoking in real life, but for writing it's fun to play with. I actually tend to grow extremely lightheaded around smokers and I've been known to pass out around long term exposure. My friends actually nicknamed me the smoke detector as a result. I can actually smell even trace amounts and tell you exactly what someone was smoking, that's how bad this is. I've actually been offered a cig before and while most people are cool with it, I've had people try and force it on me before. I honestly don't see the appeal of it. Like, I get media and such portray it as cool and once you're addicted you're kind of stuck. I understand that and if you're addicted then you can try and stop but it's not easy. I get that. But starting in the first place? I just don't see it. I mean, it could just be the fact that it physically hurts me to breathe the stuff that I'm discouraged from it but you know, I just can't see it and you'll probably get glared at if you light something in front of me, and an even harder glare if you know how much it physically hurts me to be around smoke.

However, here comes the hypocritical part, I love smoking in literature. Now, while I personally don't condone smoking and whenever I include it in literature I usually have someone mention that it's bad for you or something, it's kind of a good way to set up a character because it can imply things that otherwise can't be said. I mean, there's the bad boy character trope, the slut trope, the screw up trope, etc. So much can be done with it that it's hard to resist sometimes and it's because of this that I think so many people do start smoking.