[ Post a Response | The Sublime Desire of Cigarette Smoking ]
Posted by Pete on March 31, 2007, 11:31 pm Link: http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/6144/dscf1874za8.jpg
Following on from my thread below. I’d like to ‘risk’ posting up one of my
>favourite pictures of my girlfriend. I think it just gives the debate below a little more gravitas. Vesperae i will respond to your latest below a little later. Your one of the few in the community who really does talk sense. Anyway here you go a Picture as they say is worth
>a thousand words. Feel free to add your own impressions.
>Her poise is sexy, confident, sophisticated. Her cigarette raised
>and proud. It’s a timeless, classic pose of a beautiful smoking
>woman. It’s of a woman who knows she has a ‘pass card’, that the
>rules don’t and couldn’t possibly apply to her. Confident and in
>control she doesn’t really expect any problems from the cigarettes
>that we can see placed in her open clutch bag. A little cough and a
>dent in her stamina? That’s a price she is willing to pay. Hardly
>any price at all. Buts that’s as far as it will go. As long as she
>looks good and she herself knows she looks good, is that not the
>most important thing?
>
>Her lipstick recently retouched, a slight trace of it coats her
>filter. Her lightly tanned skin and sense of style all paint a
>picture of a sophisticated and modern woman. The bold warning on the
>pack is not for her. Of course not. Does she look like a victim? A
>potential smoking statistic? Does a woman like this ever really
>believe it could be her? That’s the debate we’ve had here. I say no.
>
>Despite all the evidence of the dangers she knows it wont be her.
>Heart attacks, lung cancer, emphysema dont figure in her plans and
>look at the picture it´s surely hard to imagine such a woman with
>any of the above. That´s not what women like her are about, at least
>not in her mind, not in most peoples mind, not really.
>
>But then despite how she views herself and her future. She of course
>rolls the dice with each cigarette . She is no different from any
>other smoker. She herself may believe it wont be her but the
>cigarette in her hand doesnt care what she thinks. It doesnt care
>for her beauty, her sense of style and it wont give it a jot when
>it stubbs out her life as indifferently as she will later stub out
>that very cigarette beneath her expensive shoe. Even that very
>cigarette there in her hand, will leave something of itself in her
>lungs. A little unwanted, unseen gift. Another five minutes off a
>privileged life. Even in this picture the clock is ticking just out
>of sight.
>
>That cigarette in her hand, already working to undermine her beauty,
>the woman she is and will be. The signs are already there that her
>conviction that she is ´special´ is misplaced. That despite all the
>so now well known dangers it will be different for her. It´s the
>healthy denial of the smoker. A denial so necessary to smooth over
>the cracks of her deadly habit.
>
>That little cough a harbinger of things to come, through a little
>exertion we glimpse the toll of her habit. She´s just a little out
>of shape though surely? Nothing to worry about and she wont.
>Certainly not today and probably not tomorrow.
>
>But it´s stalking her, creeping up on her, waiting patiently for
>the right time. A perfect real life PSA played out day to day. A
>woman with in my mind very much to lose. Only time will tell the
>price she pays for looking quite that good with a cigarette
>between her manicured fingers.
>
>Pete
