Smoking already seemed to be making a comeback in pop culture. Now, with President Donald Trump's administration gutting the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Growing up in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Aitana V. remembers being a young girl and not seeing anyone from her school or in her community smoke. If the topic of cigarettes even came up, “we talked ...

A fun fact that might make you do a double take: eight of the ten Oscar Best Picture nominees this year had tobacco imagery. Yes, in 2025, the classic cigarette returns to our TVs, our style news ...

Gen Z — largely comprised of middle- and high-school students — reported the lowest smoking rates on record in 2024, according to CDC and FDA data, but that trend may be in jeopardy. “Overall, the ...

Of all the fashion trends to make a comeback, cigarettes were an unlikely contender. After all, it’s 2024. A year when you can’t go 10 minutes on a night out without smelling the saccharine scent of ...

“Sure, cigarettes are bad for you but they make you look good.” That’s the sentiment driving smoking’s recent surge in popularity, said The New York Times. Modern culture has re-romanticised the ...

Cigarettes were once unavoidable in the U.S., in restaurants, airplanes, your mom's living room — until health warnings and cultural pressure put out the hype. The big picture: Something's shifted.

Just about every teen tries cigarettes, vaping, chewing tobacco or snuff, so don’t despair! That’s because, alongside all the warnings and campaigns, there are subtle messages that smoking is edgy and ...

“Need a cigarette to make me feel better,” crooned pop star Addison Rae on her 2025 single “Headphones On,” while Lorde sang “this is the best cigarette of my life” in her own 2025 release, “What Was ...