[ Post a Response | The Sublime Desire of Cigarette Smoking ]
Posted by M G F on July 28, 2007, 5:37 pm, in reply to "Bad Girl Image" The "bad girl" image was certainly part of my attraction to smoking and continued to feed my attraction as I got older. I have always been a fiercely independent person who has never responded well to arbitrarily exercised authority. Good girls go along with the rules. As I got older, I enjoyed the bad girl image I was projecting to the rest of the world. To quote on of vesperae's delightful images: "I'm a big girl now, I can f##k up my lungs if I want to!" I also enjoyed the fact that "bad girls" tended to attract "bad boys" For me, the "bad girl" aspect is also tied to my profession. I am a nurse and freely admit that I rather enjoy the apparent contradiction of knowing in greater detail than many just how harmful smoking is on one hand, and being a dedicated smoker on the other. I apologize for the brevity of my reply. This topic can be explored much, much further, but time is short today.
Jason: From the questions you ask, I think you might enjoy parts of my post in which I introduced myself to the board and the resulting dialog with vesperae. 
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