TMC
04-29-2026, 07:27 PM
https://theankler.com/cigarettes-get-a-sequel-hollywoods/
‘People are stressed out of their ****ing minds’ as the industry lights up again.
All around Los Angeles — from industry parties to trendy clubs — cigarettes appear to be making their Hollywood comeback, despite decades of public health campaigns aimed at snubbing them out.
On March 23, the cast and creators of Love Story — chock full of scenes showing Carolyn Bessette (and less frequently, JFK Jr.) smoking back in the ’90s — celebrated the show’s success at the Chateau Marmont penthouse, where executive producer Ryan Murphy sat smiling next to Kaia Gerber, clad in a low-cut black dress with a cigarette held in her perfectly manicured hand.
A week earlier, the night before the Oscars, a writer who had just come from the Chanel and Charles Finch party at the Beverly Hills Hotel exclaimed, “Everyone was smoking there!”
And on a recent evening at private club The Living Room in Hollywood, cigarette smokers were scattered around the garden-like outdoor bar. No one appeared to bat an eye as they lit up.
Where there’s smoke, there’s smoking. A growing cohort of young celebs — from Heated Rivalry stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to Addison Rae and I Love LA star-creator Rachel Sennott — have been photographed puffing at or holding old-school tobacco cigarettes, providing plenty of fodder for the Instagram account Cigfluencers, which chronicles famous contemporary smokers.
‘People are stressed out of their ****ing minds’ as the industry lights up again.
All around Los Angeles — from industry parties to trendy clubs — cigarettes appear to be making their Hollywood comeback, despite decades of public health campaigns aimed at snubbing them out.
On March 23, the cast and creators of Love Story — chock full of scenes showing Carolyn Bessette (and less frequently, JFK Jr.) smoking back in the ’90s — celebrated the show’s success at the Chateau Marmont penthouse, where executive producer Ryan Murphy sat smiling next to Kaia Gerber, clad in a low-cut black dress with a cigarette held in her perfectly manicured hand.
A week earlier, the night before the Oscars, a writer who had just come from the Chanel and Charles Finch party at the Beverly Hills Hotel exclaimed, “Everyone was smoking there!”
And on a recent evening at private club The Living Room in Hollywood, cigarette smokers were scattered around the garden-like outdoor bar. No one appeared to bat an eye as they lit up.
Where there’s smoke, there’s smoking. A growing cohort of young celebs — from Heated Rivalry stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to Addison Rae and I Love LA star-creator Rachel Sennott — have been photographed puffing at or holding old-school tobacco cigarettes, providing plenty of fodder for the Instagram account Cigfluencers, which chronicles famous contemporary smokers.