After decades of decreasing smoking rates, it seems like everyone is lighting up — and A-listers are leading the way.
You’ve likely sung along to Addison Rae’s recent single “Headphones On” and its standout lyric: “Guess I gotta accept the pain / Need a cigarette to make me feel better.” Or Lorde proclaiming, “This is the best cigarette of my life,” in her anthem “What Was That.”
If pop music isn’t your jam, maybe you noticed Dakota Johnson as chic matchmaker Lucy with a cig in her hand for most of Materialists when it was released in June, or Ayo Edebiri’s Syd on The Bear trying to take up smoking after watching her coworkers light up for the past four seasons.
If none of those feel familiar, just take a look outside your local bar on a Saturday night for proof: On the screen and in th