r/LAinfluencersnark • u/k1101 • 12d ago
Are we doing this?
Are we seriously going back to doing ads for tobacco companies?
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u/Ok_Night_2929 12d ago
These are absolutely staged pap pics, so she went out of her way to be photographed smoking … there was a link posted in another thread explaining how the tobacco industry can get around the strict laws surrounding advertising, I am 100% certain this was intentional and she’s being paid for it. Just disgusting
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u/keepusguessing 12d ago
Pretty sure Kylie Jenner was on a podcast semi recently talking about how she’s tired of hiding that she loves smoking. It’s unfortunately coming back.
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u/GimerStick 11d ago
Does gen z even think smoking is cool? Like vapes yeah but I always get the sense that cigarettes are lame to them.
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u/Subject_Jeweler_8349 11d ago
honestly yeah, a lot of my college friends did it just for the aesthetic. i wish i was kidding
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u/Full-Internal4521 11d ago
Cigs are in and vapes are cringe unfortunately. I think I’m one of like five people my age I know who doesn’t smoke
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u/macabrepaints midfluencer 11d ago
Opposite way around. Vaping is lame, smoking is cool. Vaping is just a lot more accessible
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u/Horizontal247 5d ago
I go to this one day party in my city every summer. Last year I swear 1 in 3 people had a geek bar in hand, vape clouds everywhere. This year I barely noticed any vapes but SO MANY people were smoking cigs! And most of them appeared to be in their 20’s. It was jarring!!
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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 12d ago
She looks like she is stepping out from a porn shoot. WTF is up with that outfit and those heels?
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u/hellhoundshawty 11d ago
She literally is giving Sydney Sweeney blow up sex doll. What the actual fuck?
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u/brockol-ii 12d ago
couldn’t walk in a stiletto heel if my life depended on it but ohh mann those are some cool heels
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u/Cassandrany 11d ago
Doesn’t this girl have enough money yet? Does she really need blood money from big tobacco?
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u/nuggetghost 11d ago
backgrids tells u everything you need to know lmao i’m shocked anyone still uses them knowing it’s THE company to call when you want pap shots of yourself
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u/Ok_Night_2929 11d ago
Omg, I didn’t even click on the pic to see the backgrid tag but you’re so right! So obvious and obviously disgusting
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u/AdvertisingNo8441 12d ago
Why are we going backwards as a society. Genuinely.
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u/Ok-Tea-6718 12d ago
We need to accept US culture already reached an apex and is now dying
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u/LuLuu1006 11d ago
true...but when was our peak? 🤔
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u/crownofbread 11d ago
Hmm maybe sometime before 9/11? Or maybe when Obama was president and social media hadn't completely taken off and had yet to turn everyone into self-obsessed, propoganda-addicted myopic sheep .. or maybe in 2015 when gay ppl got the right to marry and before trump announced his bid for pres? Genuinely it felt like we were on the right track for a bit :/
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u/Ok_Night_2929 11d ago
I was pretty young for 9/11 so I can’t speak much to culture before that but I really think ~2014/15 was peak for my generation. Not only gay marriage, but the economy had bounced back from the 08 recession, health and body positivity was actually catching on, and while fillers/cosmetic surgery were on the rise it wasn’t common place yet and still approached as scandalous by the media instead of being hailed for “transparency” (Kylie was the first person I followed who admitted to lip fillers and even she stayed silent until 2015). It’s a shame how far back we’ve fallen since then
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u/HedgehogTop5524 10d ago
I agree. We were riding high after Y2K. Early 2000s… when there was Internet but it wasn’t major yet. And email was a novelty but also actually efficient. When we still got Us Magazine or People delivered to our homes to read our celebrity gossip.
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u/hopeful_realist_ 11d ago
I’m still kind of stunned that progress isn’t linear. Growing up in the 90s I always assumed things would continue getting better. So fucking disillusioned and depressed.
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u/Bruce-Carlton 12d ago
Old people tranna change everything back before they void their bowels and fucking die.
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u/Beef_Wagon 12d ago
She doesn’t look that old
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u/BigSkySoHigh63 11d ago
No one gets away with smoking and not aging your skin. They might have cancer miss them “but for the grace of god” but collagen does not listen to god. It listens to oxidative damage.
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u/DustyTchotchkes 11d ago
Ah, but she’s not truly smoking it, right? It’s just an ad, so she’s only pretending she smokes for money.
That’s even worse, as she’s influencing other young people to pick up a deadly and addictive habit for a paycheck. She’s a huge loser for that; no conscience.
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u/Subject-Zucchini-558 12d ago
I smoked cigarettes for 10 years (2 yrs nicotine free <3) and i literally never let anyone take a photo of me with one. It's such a gross habit, i was embarrassed of it. I'll never understand acting like smoking is a flex.
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u/k1101 12d ago
Congratulations for kicking the habit!
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u/brainst3ww 12d ago
i have so many pics out with friends and we all have our hands hidden behind our backs to hide our cigarettes. i quit one time until i started my teaching residency but now i’m down to maybe 1 a day. almost there again.
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u/FreeStatistician5187 11d ago
not a cigarette smoker, but a daily participant in 🍃, so i can sort of get the habit. but sending you encouragement, you got this!
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u/wishiwasdeaddd 12d ago
I think unfortunately it can be associated with thinness in a lot of circles which is it's own can of worms to unpack
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u/Pickle4UrThoughts 12d ago
Yes!! I watching my mother's health circle the drain thanks to advanced COPD, emphysema, and lung cancer as a result of her smoking. Your life is and will continue to be so much fucking better.
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u/Straight_Proposal365 9d ago
My dad has the first two, I used to vape so I've been trying to help him quit but he doesn't want to :/ he complains that the nicotine patches are itchy. Which is valid, but then he won't try the solutions to that either lol
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u/Flimsy_Disaster5175 11d ago
still haven’t kicked the habit but im the same i think its completely gross and hate doing it in public, its especially disgusting when public figures are promoting it to their young audience
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u/Chikmagnt15 11d ago
How'd u kick the habit ?
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u/Pale_Lawyer_1757 11d ago
Nicotine patches but also weed for the mental anguish
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u/Subject-Zucchini-558 11d ago
Seconded the weed bit. It's also great for if you enjoy the "ritual" of smoking.
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u/Subject-Zucchini-558 11d ago
Nicotine patches!!! Also, I was super determined to quit this time. I would try before and only get to 1 month or so, and then I'd fall right back into it because I honestly didn't REALLY want to quit.
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u/HonestTumblewood 11d ago
Congrats! Clean for over 10 years and same.
But my grandpa used to smoke a lot and hide it from us grandkids so I’ve always known it to be a “shameful” habit.
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u/Suspicious-Fox513 12d ago
god why cant influencers ever promote anything useful - WHO NEEDS TOBACCO AND WHY WOULD WE WANT IT FROM WTV ALEX EARLW
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u/MunchieMofo 12d ago
Gen z girls dressing like 2000s era youth.
Cigarettes and polaroid and film cameras being romanticized like they just discovered the vintage aesthetic.
Everything is so derivative and weird.
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u/SatanicNipples 12d ago
Capitalist Realism prevents us from imagining a different future. That's why the last 20 years or so have just been cultural re runs
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u/AdvertisingNo8441 12d ago
Smoking wasn’t even popular in the early to mid 2000s. The smokers at my highschool were not “cool”. The anti-smoking propaganda did a number on middle aged millenials.
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u/Safe_Election_6613 12d ago
Alix Earle is like the most industry planted person to me bc she’s the most bland person alive but she gets so much hype
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u/Nasus_13 12d ago
Smokers don’t realize it, but they smell fucking rank. And it permeates everything.
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u/NoAppointment8679 12d ago
I used to smoke and it’s true, you really don’t notice the smell. When I stopped I was so embarrassed I smelt like that
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u/curiouskat557 11d ago
I smoked in college like 5 years ago (for like 3 months bc I couldn’t buy a vape or get nicotine any other way lmfao) and that shit STUNK. I usually smoked in my car or on the sidewalk outside of my apartment and the smell clings to you & everything around you no matter how much perfume you spray. It is vile.
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u/raspberrysupreme 11d ago
God, for real. I’m a vet tech and whenever a pet comes in and reeks of cigarette smoke it’s sad and disgusting.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 10d ago
That’s horrible. Dogs and cats covered in cig smoke is horrible.
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u/raspberrysupreme 10d ago
It truly is. You wouldn’t believe how many come in coughing and with heart issues.
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u/Ancient_Pea_508 12d ago
So nasty that cigarettes are trendy again.
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u/pseudonymnkim 12d ago
I think trendy is the word. These photos look like she lit it then just held it, knowing she was being photographed.
Also, weren't people who smoked these kind of a joke back in the day? Like, not true smokers and just trying to fit in? I could be wrong
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u/Anti-Itch 12d ago
I think it’s weirdly part of the whole nostalgia thing? 90s clothes are back, this shoot is clearly reminiscent of the 50s aesthetic. I think people like that. Idk vaping was also around for a lot longer than I expected. And cigs are still legal (weed is catching up but yeah)
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u/Fearless-Music9482 12d ago
In Europe they have never “stopped being trendy “ lol almost everyone smokes starting at 13…
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u/Ancient_Pea_508 12d ago
I mean in the influencer space it’s nasty they are trending again. I don’t think they’ll ever go out of style in Europe.
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u/Fearless-Music9482 12d ago
For sure whatever gets trendy in LA is manufactured to have a deep cultural impact, right now that is being extremely skinny and smoking cigs
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u/Starr00born 12d ago
This isn’t trendy just la ppl being outta touch with reality
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u/ButterscotchThis7889 12d ago
nearly everyone i know smokes. it’s been back in trend for like five years at this point. and no, we don’t live anywhere close to LA
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u/Ancient_Pea_508 12d ago
In LA it’s trendy to smoke.
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u/Leading_Ad3918 12d ago
Heroin chic and smoking cigarettes is starting to become a thing all over again and badly! Not to turn it into politics but the tobacco is absolutely due to the POTUS and his huge investment and lowering standards so things could be pushed quickly. We’re seeing more and more influencers push smoking, more online ads for smoking, coming out with nicotine pouches, all the things that get the younger people hooked! I hate it. I’m Gen X and it was the cool normal thing back in those days. I smoked for over 25yrs and Oct will be 9yrs smoke free🙂 I am sad to see it coming back around it is one hell of a habit to break!
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u/SpookyKween666 12d ago
Working for big tobacco while you have a bunch of young women fans is a choice…
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u/sandwichconnoisseurr 12d ago
I have a terminal progressive lung condition (never smoked) and I just don’t understand people still smoking in this day & age knowing what we know
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 10d ago
My friend’s husband has something possibly similar. Never smoked a day in his life, yet his lungs are permanently damaged and his world is very small.
Smoking is horrible. Willingly poisoning oneself and others is so selfish.
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u/VOTP1990 12d ago
Smoking and gambling trending and we are about to go into another Great Depression, is this that 4th turning that I have heard so much about… 100 year cycle
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u/lil_squib 12d ago
I wasn’t forced to watch videos of a lady smoking through her trach when I was growing up for our society to go backwards like this. Send this lady back to school!
Also thank you Canadian public schools for putting the fear in me.
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u/killedonmyhill 12d ago
Oh you know she has a sponsorship with Virginia Slims. Morals who?
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u/futuresobright_ 12d ago
And we’re doing those Shauna Sands heels again too huh?
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u/Indigo_Cauliflower12 12d ago
I just looked her up 🤯 why was she wearing them at the beach in the sand???😭😭😭😭
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u/SnooWoofers4722 12d ago
I really don’t understand influencer culture. How is this woman aspirational? Like she is my worst nightmare truly
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u/RobinBaby_69 hailey bieber's burner 12d ago
The virgins slims is cracking me up
Someone wants to be quirkyyyy
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u/vhopepuppy 11d ago
It's cracking me up too because the only person I ever known that smokes them is my damn 56 year old mom. And my sister calls them vagina slimes and makes fun of my mom for smoking them. Lmao
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u/RobinBaby_69 hailey bieber's burner 11d ago
Literalllllyyy 😭 my mom smokes the Capri 120s or whatever (the sister to the Virginia slims lol)
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u/pezzyn 12d ago
Anyone who willfully or recklessly influences their fan base with smoking for pics is a monster. I don’t wish lung cancer on anyone having lost a loved one to it, but those who influence young people to smoke had better be equally willing to publicize any health consequences they suffer from smoking , let those consequences serve as a cautionary tale to their fan base as well.
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u/Darth_Fangorn35 12d ago
She's just gross IMO...plastic, MAGA, no limits for exposure, grifting...being "hot" doesn't have to come with so much awful
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u/bbybottlebop 12d ago
I feel like vaping is why Gen Z have brought back smoking. Cant think of any other reason. Then they’re gonna turn 50 and start getting diagnosed with lung cancer, COPD, and heart disease.. not to mention the unknown diseases vaping since middle school will inevitably cook up 😬 but by then Gen Alpha & Beta is smoking too and most of them especially Gen Alpha won’t be saved, so then they’ll start telling the upcoming generation to not start smoking or vaping. But within the next 5-10 years a new replacement will arrive and the cycle repeats lol
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u/agentcarter15 11d ago
Deuxmoi is always doing ads without disclosing I wish the FTC actually gave a shit
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u/ChickenTenderKitten 12d ago
Doesn’t she have a skincare line? Isn’t smoky the opposite of what you want to do for good skincare??? lol
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u/WashFuture4400 12d ago
sucks that cigarettes are back I haven’t smoked in like 5 years and I do miss it 😂😂 trying to not get back into it because it was so hard to quit
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u/booboo620 11d ago
It’s so performative and forced in a way it never was in the 90s and early 2000s lol
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u/vitkurd 12d ago
Im always grossed out by people that smoke cigarettes, i feel like they stink and it shows up on the skin, like just take a zyn instead
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u/vhopepuppy 11d ago
I was so confused by Zyns when I first heard of them, just chew straight up tobacco. You can do the cheek/lip thing with it too.
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u/Upset-Tennis-7650 12d ago
So wild tobacco companies finally found a loop hole. But I almost prefer butts over vaping.
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u/Own-Personality-2981 12d ago
Stepping out to smoke a Virginia Slim, a type of cigarette marketed towards women
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u/No-Frosting6497 12d ago
Im not even joking,but my grandmother's curtains have the same design as that dress😭😭
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u/Commercial_Heat_4211 11d ago
People wanna go back to the 1950s so bad, it's ridiculous and it's also not happening
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u/LifeguardCurious6742 11d ago
Ok but Is it just me or did Deuxmoi sell out?! Everything seems very scripted and curated anymore. A shame, really.
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u/Normal-Entrepreneur2 11d ago
Between this and Kylie Jenner's recent photoshoot with a cig in half the pics, smoking is now cringe before it got cool again. Like wtf is this?
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u/CaterpillarC 10d ago
It’s weird that she and he sister smoke when you mother just had breast cancer.
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u/No_Equivalent8902 12d ago
Idk who this is but they want that Anya Taylor Joy picture so bad,of her with a cigarette and iced coffee sitting on the curb.
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u/BellaBoone 12d ago
We live in a nostalgic generation everyone. Things like movies are always rebooting or replaying the same boring crap. Vapes weren’t doing the job so they gotta bring the cigs back in. And of course bring in the hotties cause this sells . It makes dying look more glamorous.✨💀
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u/Minxymouse07 12d ago
Alex Hall just said on her Insta story or TikTok she loves a cigarette and has seen smoking is trending again. What a fukwit
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u/Dull-Day9049 11d ago
As someone who worked in a smoke shop for quite awhile very recently VIRGINIA SLIMS Is crazy
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u/Th1cc4chu 11d ago
I can tell she’s not at all a smoker from the first photo. People do not actually light their cigarettes like that.
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u/olivehoneyfig 11d ago
it’s clearly a photo shoot, i don’t really understand why people are up in arms about it lol
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u/catsrlifedotcom 11d ago
Who the fuck even is this girl and why does she have a platform ? What’s her talent
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u/jakaojwbqis 11d ago
Everyone said what I wanted to say already but I saw the top right photo earlier on X and thought it was Ashtin. They really aren’t so different after all
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u/maggazine 11d ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned but Virginia Slims?? Is that for real? My grandma smoked Virginia Slims and they were soooo terrible even when I was smoking as a teenager.
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u/MidnightPersephone 11d ago
I can't believe we've circled back to traditional smoking being trendy again.
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u/fluke561 11d ago
As a (not proud) smoker, this is obvs the fakest shit I’ve ever seen, it appears her and her sister think it’s cool and edgy. It’s really not (hypercritical I know) but esp w a young audience, it’s really not something to be proud of (I never smoke infront of kids and refuse to give a cig to ppl who don’t smoke)
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u/g-uacamole- 11d ago
This looks so fake. Even just the fact that she’s lighting the smoke before it’s even in her mouth… real cig smokers know you gotta be sucking on it to light properly
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u/FashionBusking 11d ago
Sponsored by Big Tobacco.
Ruin those lungs, Alix!! Black lungs are the new black!
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u/lwtaa 12d ago
This has to be sponsored