The Smoking Obession

So, as anybody who's been reading fics on my site is sure to have noticed, I have a strange fascination with making the boyos smokers. This is not because I'm a smoker or plotting a subversive movement to bring back smoking and make it cool. I'm actually mildly allergic to cigarette smoke (my throat tends to tighten if I'm around someone with a cigarette), and I find the habit a rather disgusting one. Coming from a sort of West Coast-ish sort of sensibility and also being of a generation inundated with anti-smoking commercials practically from birth, I find it hard to imagine why anybody would willingly give themselves cancer.

But here's the thing. Despite the fact that I hate cigarette smoke and I hate being around smokers and I can't understand why people smoke, I still find the mental image of one of the boys smoking incredibly sexy. This schism in my beliefs is really rather distressing. At best, all I can say is that I'm a visual person at heart. I like to use smoke, I like how it looks in my mind. And I can always take the cheater's route and claim that because the boyos live so far in the future, they aren't actually in danger of lung cancer.

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