Who Knew Lung Cancer Could Be Sexy

I would be the last person to glorify or glamourise smoking in any way having long believed it to be a sign of weakness and conformity. Needless to say, there is a very (very) select percentage of the population whose beauty,glamour and radiant coolness manage to contaminate each and unattractive thing they do with their divinity and convert it into something incredibly sexy. These are those.

1. Penelope Cruz in Vicky Christina Barcelona





Playing the effervescent damaged beauty Marie Elena in Woody Allen's Spanish Sexual Journey about 2 American tourists on Holiday in Barcelona, Penelope Cruz blows around the movie in a fiery wind of anger and sexiness. Being European is a slight ugly filter for smoking as it is practically fed from the breast and no one can envision a French madame or Spanish senorita without a cigarette dangling from their lips.



 

2. January Jones in Mad Men

In a time when smoking was believed to be good for health, smoking was as commonplace as eating and sometimes more. Mad Men's creator Mathew Weiner has confessed that the actors smoke fake cigarettes whilst filming to inhibit actor vomit from tarnishing the sets, yet that hasn't stopped youtubers creating an 8 part series of video's featuring solely clips of Betty Drapper sucking icily but sexily on the cigrettes between her pale talonned fingers for the viewing pleasure of smoking fetishists world wide.

 

3. Brigitte Bardot in Life

 

 

In the 60s, you couldn't be a sex symbol and not smoke. Fortunately for Brigitte, she fit both criteria.

 

4. Kate Moss in Life

 

 

 

Not every woman can flit at will from this:

 

to this:

 

But then Not every woman is Kate Moss. Hence, for those 2 reasons, we forgive her.

 

5. Lana Del Rey in Born to Die/Paradise/Life

 

 

This woman inhales smoke more than she does oxygen. But as well as being possibly the most beautiful woman in the word (controversial but challenge me I dare you), having a voice of an angel and a mind to match, she also is the only person I have ever seen look impossibly elegant and beautiful and transfixing at all timeswhilst sipping the juice, which is far more difficult than you might think. Perhaps its the lips, perhaps its the hands or perhaps its just her. But for all those reasons, on top of the fact she is Lana Del Rey, miss Grant takes home the crown for most beautiful and sexiest smoker, thus contradictin an oxymoron.

 

(smoker, lana del rey, kate moss, Brigitte Bardot, January jones, mad men, betty draper, Penelope cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona)