Even if they are using fake cigarettes that smoke can’t be healthy to inhale, right?
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They usually smoke nicotine-free herbal cigarettes. I don’t know the long term affects but definitely better than regular cigarettes.
I think it could be considered dedication to their work, especially when you consider they usually have to film a scene several times. Cillian Murphy probably went through thousands of them when filming Peaky Blinders. Lol
From that wiki page:
Research shows that herbal cigarettes compared with regular cigarettes can be just as harmful in terms of the carcinogens they contain.
I’m assuming the benefit is they’re not addictive so you won’t end up smoking packs a day for years.
Nicotine is as addictive as caffeine. It’s the habit that is hard to break.
Ok but there is no reason to have a nicotine and caffeine addiction.
Yes, there’s no reason to enjoy life…lol
I smoke cigars/pipe tobacco, but I don’t drink or have caffeine, it’s a vice and it makes my life better. If you want to save people, get them to stop eating and being morbidly obese…it’s the #1 killer in the USA now.
I fully agree that people should stop eating the way they do. Again, that doesn’t make one thing more or less healthy.
To frame your argument in another example: is ok to drive without a seatbelt if you aren’t going over the speed limit.
The issue isn’t that driving without a seatbelt is only unsafe while speed. They are both safety issues independent from each other.
Again…vices exist. People do drugs, let them, people over eat…let them…but don’t whine when someone else likes a different vice.
So what? They’re smoking those so that they don’t get addicted to nicotine. Smoking 1 pack of cigarettes in a day is not that bad for you. Doing it every day for 30 years is a death sentence.
They depict stuff that humans do in real life.
Here’s my theory that is based on no research whatsoever:
Cigarette companies used to pay to have characters smoke in movies and TV shows. This would cultivate a social acceptance and “cool factor” around smoking. During the 80s and 90s, this practice came under fire and smoking in movies and TV dramatically dropped to the point of almost being non-existent.
Then time passed, vaping became popular, and people stopped caring about the impact of normalizing or even glorifying smoking. So the practice of paying studios to have characters smoke started to return. Nobody said anything, so it is becoming common place again.
It doesn’t matter if it is unhealthy, it is profitable.
There’s no version of smoking that’s totally healthy. Even just inhaling fumes from a fireplace isn’t great. I imagine a lot of em will smoke for real, or use a filler like sage or hemp
I guess you could imagine stuffing a vape into a prop cig, but that sounds high effort
Sitting in traffic every day for hours on end is really bad for you as well.
I’m reminded of the story of William Davis getting hooked on cigarettes because he insisted on smoking real cigarettes instead of props in the first episodes of X Files
I mean, many of them are getting paid enough not to care and some of them would be smokers. Also, for the majority that don’t personally smoke I’m sure smoking infrequently for the occasional role wouldn’t have anywhere as near a detrimental impact to health compared to even smoking only a few times a week.
I remember reading a long time ago that there’s an herbal (no, not making a marijuana joke) alternative that can be smoked.
Especially when they need to show, e.g., underaged smoking.
But I don’t have a source to link at my fingertips just now.
In any case, probably not good to be inhaling it though.
As far as why? Because it’s in the script.
legacy of big tobacco. smoking transcends time as well - like, you arent going to see a character from pre-10 years ago “movie time” vaping, but smoking various plants has been a thing for quite a few centuries now.
It’s a job, specifically a job where you usually have to pretend to be someone you’re not.
Also, I’m always smokin’.
I know that on some shoots like In The Cut they sometimes ran out of herbal smokes and people had to smoke real cigs and hated it
People often do things that are not good for them in the long term. This is not news, is it?
