New York Magazine Writer Wants to Bring Back Smoking for Very Nihilistic Reasons – Democratic Accent

New York Magazine writer wants to bring back smoking for very nihilistic reasons – Democratic Accent

Remember smoking? I sure don’t, because I’m 33 years old and came of age when it was beaten into your head that cigarettes were horrifyingly harmful to your health and would kill you if you so much as looked at one. It must have worked, because I haven’t even put my lips on a cigarette in my adult life. I can’t say the same for the subject of our story today, Xochitl Gonzalez, a writer for New York Magazine who longs for the days when it was soc…

New York Magazine writer wants to bring back smoking for very nihilistic reasons

Remember smoking?I sure don't, because I'm 33 years old and came of age when it was beaten into your head that cigarettes were horrifyingly harmful to your health and would kill you if you so much as looked at one.It must have worked, because I haven't even put my lips on a cigarette in my adult life.I can't say the same for the subject of our story today, Xochitl Gonzalez, a writer for New York Magazine who longs for the days when it was social…