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I love old movie scenes with cigarettes.

I'm probably watching too much film noir. I love the cigarettes after sex, all that beautiful release. And lighting cigs when introduced - that gesture of striking the match and putting it to the tip of the cigarette. Oh mama.

by Anonymousreply 14May 22, 2020 9:37 PM

The most notable one, to my mind, being the post-coital scene in CHINATOWN. Seeing it for the first time in my teens, it was the epitome of adult sophistication, and remains so for me to this day (though I don't smoke).

by Anonymousreply 1May 22, 2020 5:10 AM

I was just thinking the other day how chic it was to see a cigarette lighter. The man pulls out a gold lighter, opens the top and a flame appears.

by Anonymousreply 2May 22, 2020 5:12 AM

I'm watching Double Indemnity on TCM. Holy fuck. No explicit hot scenes but we all know what happened when Walter Neff lights that cigarette.

by Anonymousreply 3May 22, 2020 5:13 AM

Double Indemnity, like much of Billy Wilder's output, is a great, great film. And that heartrending closer!

by Anonymousreply 4May 22, 2020 5:18 AM

Shit, R1, that's the exact smoking scene I thought of.

OK, second thing that comes to mind is Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate." Dustin Hoffman's character kisses AB right after she takes a drag of a cigarette. When DH finishes kissing AB, she exhales a big puff of smoke.

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by Anonymousreply 5May 22, 2020 5:21 AM

[quote]I was just thinking the other day how chic it was to see a cigarette lighter.

R2 The first gift I gave my partner was a monogrammed gold cigarette lighter. Of course, this was years ago and we both stopped smoking years ago but we cherish that lighter!

by Anonymousreply 6May 22, 2020 5:28 AM

If smoking were not dangerous and disgusting, I'd do it all the fucking time.

by Anonymousreply 7May 22, 2020 5:37 AM

And expensive, R7.

by Anonymousreply 8May 22, 2020 5:42 AM

I've been chain smoking all night. Smoking really feels THAT good.

by Anonymousreply 9May 22, 2020 5:45 AM

R9 But when is the last time you had great sex? We need to know...

by Anonymousreply 10May 22, 2020 5:49 AM

I quit smoking years ago but when I did, I never wanted a cigarette after sex. I just wanted a snooze. But I love the implication in movies that hot sex calls for a deep drag on a cigarette after the deed.

by Anonymousreply 11May 22, 2020 4:43 PM

R8 I can't imagine what a carton of cigarettes costs now. I quit a hundred years ago because the price was killing me - I smoked two CARTONS a week for a total cost of $25 and change. I think a pack was maybe a dollar? More in a vending machine. OMG - are cigarettes still sold in vending machines?

by Anonymousreply 12May 22, 2020 4:55 PM

Our casino has cigarette vending machines. I'm not a big gambler, so the cigarette vending machines are more entertaining than slots. You win every time.

by Anonymousreply 13May 22, 2020 5:00 PM

Back in the day, it was glamorous to smoke. But now, it just means you're trash -- in the U.S., anyway.

by Anonymousreply 14May 22, 2020 9:37 PM
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