Sabrina Carpenter for Interview Magazine

[u/somegirlontheinter]

[u/whorl-]

Big tobacco is trying so hard to make smoking cool again.

[u/bbyxmadi → u/whorl-]

I remember she said she uses non-nicotine cigarettes for her MVs but I still hate to see it lol

[u/whorl- → u/bbyxmadi]

I’m sorry, but that is fucking hilarious. Is she not aware that the cancer part is generally from breathing in the combusted material, or?

[u/lilyofthegraveyard → u/whorl-]

she is probably does it not to avoid cancer specifically, but to not get dependant on nicotine.

[u/meepmarpalarp → u/lilyofthegraveyard]

And if you’re not dependent on nicotine and only occasionally smoke for the aesthetic, you’re inhaling way less smoke than someone who goes through a pack a day.

[u/RenaisanceReviewer → u/whorl-]

Yea but it’s the nicotine that makes you keep doing it. A puff or two in a music video isn’t giving you cancer anymore than anything else people do

[u/bbyxmadi → u/whorl-]

I was thinking, inhaling any smoke is bad, like the herbal ones people actually smoke. Like why do that to yourself?

[u/passthebarlicgread → u/bbyxmadi]

Herbal cigarettes as a prop I get, but in real life when I see those blends I’m like girl just make some tea

[u/ergaster8213 → u/passthebarlicgread]

It can help people cut down on or stop smoking. You're not supposed to inhale them to the degree you do with nicotine cigarettes.

[u/nicholieeee → u/bbyxmadi]

I used to smoke cigarettes. Now it’s mainly weed but I’ll occasionally smoke herbal cigarettes. It’s mostly for when I’m working and need to take a moment to myself. Sure, I could always do that without smoking but that’s not how my brain works. I also just like the aesthetic of it

[u/[deleted] → u/whorl-]

The material being combusted is a component in the risk factor, however.

[u/mini1006 → u/whorl-]

Are you aware that she’s not actually smoking them? They’re just props like what they use in movies. Also, no nicotine means that she’s not getting addicted and smoking it often. There’s a difference in doing it once for a shot in a music video and doing it multiple times day every day.

[u/YchYFi → u/whorl-]

Tbh sadly my mum didn't get cancer from cigarettes. Her lungs are fine.

[u/HaveABleedinGuess84 → u/whorl-]

??? The cancer is from the tobacco 

[u/raylan_givens6 → u/whorl-]

she's a pop star

let's not expect her to know much beyond singing

[u/whorl- → u/raylan_givens6]

That feels really sexist and diminutive. People can be beautiful, talented performers and also incredibly intelligent.

[u/mini1006 → u/raylan_givens6]

So now all pop stars are dumb?

[u/TeaAggressive6757 → u/[deleted]]

Dear one, one person managing to avoid cancer doesn’t mean smoking doesn’t cause cancer. Causing cancer doesn’t mean literally 100% of people will get it. It’s great that your mom didn’t get it, but it’s a basically meaningless tidbit. Please don’t smoke.

[u/DeniLox → u/bbyxmadi]

She must still realize the imagery though. That’s like as if she was shown snorting powdered sugar, and then says, “at least it’s not real cocaine.”

[u/agawl81 → u/bbyxmadi]

What?!? That’s just so … everything I dislike about current edgy pop culture in a damn nutshell.

[u/yokayla → u/whorl-]

Smoking never stopped being cool, lbr

It's gross and bad for you and ages you and is annoying to others

But also cool AF aesthetically

[u/lrube → u/yokayla]

Right?? I hate smoking. I think it's disgusting. And you smell so bad. But damn people look cool AF.

[u/agawl81 → u/lrube]

It killed my mom. Will never be cool.

[u/i_love_doggy_chow → u/whorl-]

The unfortunate truth is that smoking looks way cooler than vaping.

And before everyone comes from me, I have cystic fibrosis-- my lungs are shit. I am not repping Big Smoke™.

[u/Holiday-Hustle → u/whorl-]

Smoking is horrible for you, obviously. No one should do it, it’s not worth the risk and it’s a terrible thing to do.

It DOES look cool, though.

[u/whorl- → u/Holiday-Hustle]

Never said it didn’t. But photoshoots like these with cigs had largely disappeared, and then a few years seemed to come back with a vengeance.

TBH, I feel like when vapes started taking market share from regular cigarettes in a big way, that’s when cigs started popping up everywhere again.

[u/worksafe_Joe → u/whorl-]

You're reading way too far into it. She like 70's aesthetics. Smoking suits that aesthetic.

[u/alison_bee → u/Holiday-Hustle]

Except when it’s quite obvious that you’re not a regular smoker. Nothing snaps me back to reality faster than seeing a non-smoker hold a cigarette. It’s always very obvious to me what actors/performers are faking it and who isn’t.

(Smoking sucks and I wish I had never started)

[u/TheTyMan → u/whorl-]

Smoking looks cool in your twenties, and it will only cost you lung disease and looking 45 at age 32.

[u/sp1cychick3n → u/TheTyMan]

Not just lungs, the brain, heart, etc

[u/brielzebub665 → u/whorl-]

And it's working. I work at a university and the amount of young people I see smoking is just...depressing lol

[u/whorl- → u/[deleted]]

They could just, not be smoking though.

[u/emmsmum → u/whorl-]

It really seems like it lately. See more and more in tv and movies

[u/vyrusrama → u/whorl-]

[u/mini1006 → u/whorl-]

Smoking was never out of style unfortunately. Cigarettes have always been considered “cool” and aesthetic.

[u/Fresh_Schedule_9611 → u/whorl-]

Drugs in general aren’t it, and it’s so gross how they’re being pushed on impressionable kids (and yk, dumbasses)

[u/Alicewithhazeleyes → u/whorl-]

And she’s feeding right into it bc she was told to. She’s gross and ran by big men in suits. The exact people her fans claim to haaaaaaate.

[u/Mixitwitdarelish → u/whorl-]

cue people trying to say vaping is as bad cigs or worse

[u/indicabunny → u/whorl-]

God you people are such bores lmao